[Leica] Canon 20D ;-)

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Karen Nakamura offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon 20D ;-)


> The adapter is a pain to get on and off a lens. basically there is so 
> little clearance between the lens and the adapter that there is no place 
> to put a release switch. So it's easier to just leave it on the lens and 
> use the body release switch -- and get an adapter for each lens you 
> use.<<<<<,

Hi Karen,
Thank you, will do so after I've given the adapter-Leica lens rig a try next 
week.

> Canon  L zooms are sweet but you'll be disappointed in their build quality 
> compared to Leica glass. A lot of plastic and polycarbonates used even in 
> their highest end zooms.<<<,

Well I'm not so concerned about how the things are put together or of what 
as long as the glass produces sharply cut images. So far the 16-35 zoom I 
have is quite an amazing image cutter on the memory card. Or so it appears 
on the screen. But what I am most interested in is... the effect of using 
Leica glass with this digital camera.

So far from the comments of others using a Leica-EOS adapter system the 
Leica lenses work extremely well, which I expect to find out shortly myself. 
However, although being of quick hands at focusing manually for many years, 
I am becoming, ( never thought I'd admit this in public,) ;-)  But I'm 
becoming very skilled at "auto-focusing" the subject. ;-)  we shall see. ;-) 
........"to be cont'd" ;-)

ted