Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm mostly being petulant and liberal in this thread. I have five Leica lenses and two Leica bodies that could be used for FOM2 things, so I'm not at a loss for Leica equipment. One is a Tri-Elmar, and if I cannot take at least one FOM2 image with that, I'm pretty pathetic. I don't think Leica folks bristle at Nikon or Canon LTM lenses, but Konica is another story. If I went through all of the permutations of Leica lens + non-Leica body and non-Leica lens + Leica body, I'd have more "legal" FOM2 combinations than I could possibly use. Part of this attitude on my part is that I feel better about taking a great shot with a Jupiter than with a Summicron. But put a watercolor brush in my hand and I won't touch anything other than the finest, most colorfast Winsor and Newton pigments. Go figure. I guess I can relate to y'all Leicaphiles on some level. Jeffery Smith At 03:22 PM 7/3/02, you wrote: >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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html