Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Users digest V19 #29
From: phuang@pmsoft.com.sg
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:42:48 +0000

Paul Huang@LMS
01/15/2001 01:42 PM

Hi Duane,

Thanks for the rundown on D30.  Why do you say, you wont get Leica glass
quality whne mounted on the D30?  Is it because you can not focus
accurately in manual.  I photographing birds so its a bit difficult to
replace the long modulars.

Paul

Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:43:07 -0500
From: "Birkey" <dbirkey@uio.telconet.net>
Subject: [Leica] R lenses on D30
Message-ID: <001401c07d04$6e417a60$3c9d793f@dbirkey.telconet.net>
References:

I've not tried using R lenses on a D-30..... but I wouldn't recommend it.

You can get a Novoflex adapter that allows you to use R lenses on EOS
bodies... around $175 from Calumet...  The good new is that you can focus
on
infinity... but you have to focus with it stopped down or remember to stop
the lens back down before shooting...

I would not recommend it for use with the D30 as I've found the D30 a
little
harder to manual focus to begin with.  As it has one of those stupid
built-in diopters that make it blurry for everybody... and well... You are
not going to see the quality of Leica glass when it is mounted on D30...

I normally manual focus my EOS 1N's with no problems... but I have had some
trouble with the D-30 and am learning how use it in AF mode and using the
AF
lock with better results.  The preview panel on the back does not really
allow you to tell if something is critically or even reasonably sharp.

I figured it would  be better to save the $175 to buy a lens that actually
autofocuses and has an auto aperture and works with TTL flash......

Duane Birkey
HCJB World Radio, Quito Ecuador
Duane's Photographs of Ecuador:
http://duane_birkey.tripod.com