Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 1.15 and 1.25 magnifiers
From: Allen Graves <ahgraves@prodigy.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:44:37 -0500
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Stephen Gandy at Cameraquest sells a variety of adapters to LSM and 
M-mount. I have the Nikon to M and it does work nicely, but it 
doesn't have the cams- limits its usefulness to  wide angles. It is 
fun to put a full-frame fisheye on the M6, though it serves no real 
purpose.

Allen




>So....  I'm having a grand old time in Japan, scooting about the 
>country visiting used camera stores...... errr... I mean doing 
>serious ethnographic research .......
>
>today I came across some different type eyepiece magnifiers for M camera:
>
>	1.15
>and	1.25
>
>The 1.15 is designed to bring the 0.85x Leica up to 0.97, or pretty 
>darn close to 1.0.
>
>I tried them both and the centers were nice and sharp, but the edges 
>were distorted.  They were priced around $150 each, I think.
>
>
>Other neat things were adaptors to convert pretty much every mount 
>possible to your Leica-M and Leica-R cameras.  Imagine a Nikon SLR 
>lens on your M6!   They have little cams in them that allow you to 
>use the rangefinder in the M to get the focus distance, then you 
>transfer the reading to the lens.
>
>Karen
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In reply to: Message from Rick Dykstra <rdandcb@cybermac.com.au> (Re: [Leica] OT: Hey Ted, I bought some Lagavulin ...)
Message from Karen Nakamura <mail@gpsy.com> ([Leica] 1.15 and 1.25 magnifiers)