Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/20

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Subject: [Leica] M lenses on EOS bodies
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Thu Jan 20 10:31:24 2005

on 1/20/05 8:00 AM, Aaron Sandler at aaron.sandler@duke.edu wrote:

> I remember that, too, Doug.
> 
> I think he had just used gaffer tape to hold the thing in place and then
> took a photo, trying to verify whether the angle-of-incidence thing was
> really an issue.  He thought it wasn't.  I think it might have been Mark
> Williams who did the test.  Interesting.
> 
> -Aaron
> 
>> on 1/19/05 6:55 PM, Slobodan Dimitrov at s.dimitrov@charter.net wrote:
>> 
>>> Has anyone tried using M lenses on any digital EOS body?
>>> S. Dimitrov
>>> 
>> 
>> There was a thread on photo.net where someone used M lense on an EOS.
>> Close-focus only, looked fine as far as anyone can tell from a jpg on a
>> computer monitor.
>> 
>> Doug Herr
>> Birdman of Sacramento
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>

The angle-of-incidence thing wouldn't be an issue because the lens is
farther away from the sensor plane than it ordinarily would be.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com



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