Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeffery Smith wrote: > > Yeah (2 of them) but sometimes my best images are taken with a non-Leica (I > just cannot get away from that 50/1.5 Nokton and 50/3.5 Heliar!). I'm going > to continue trying to shoot things that are in the same vein as the > original FOM. That's the one I grew up with. > > Jeffery > To me it's in a way very Leicalike to use all kinds of glass on your Leica. In the days of yore (Leica screw mount) it was common to have Cannon or Nikon glass on your Leica. I imagine it was common to have Leica glass on Cannon and Nikons. So I'd hope the rule was that you could use third party glass on your M6. But there are pitfalls here on my logic. First of all i usually value glass first. So what about using Leica glass on a Bessa or that other one? That just sounds even more appealing to me for a think like this and i can't place why. I LIKE the idea of a FOM being a Leica thing. Sure it wasn't the first time but here it is now. The simple thing would be to just say everything has to be all Leica. I for one would have not problem with that because the only think I've got in my Leica kit which is not Leica is the Rodenstock macro lens for my Viso II! Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.markrabiner.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html