Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Focus on the CV 35/1.2
From: "animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:52:09 +0200
References: <73A4CB44-E4CB-11D7-A224-000A9578C446@ncable.net.au>

> But it still has the DOF of a 35 at smaller apertures.  I have not used
> one, and I agree that the Nocti would feel a bit odd with a tab. Good
> point
>
> Cheers
> On Friday, Sep 12, 2003, at 00:09 Australia/Melbourne, Joseph Yao wrote:
>
> > I agree the tab is useful for street shooting, but if the lens is
> > large, it
> > is better without a tab.  For example, it would be hard to use a
> > focusing
> > tab with the Noctilux, Summilux 75 and APO 90.
> >
> > The Nokton 35/1.2 is much larger than the Summilux 35.
> >
> > Bests,
> >
> > Joseph
> >
> >
> > on 11/9/03 2:14 pm, Alastair Firkin at firkin@ncable.net.au wrote:
> >
> >> The tab is useful for street shooting however and is a loss in my
> >> opinion
> >
I find that on the noctilux the tab is in the way most of the time unless
you have a only a few meters range of focus for a while then it helps.The
grip of the ring that remains (on the Kronermann device) makes focusing
faster for me.
simon j

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