Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/29

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Subject: [Leica] Ted's comments about M8 and 35/1.2 Nokton use
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Fri Dec 29 12:23:20 2006
 
Since M6 through M8 measure light at taking aperture there is no coupling 
issue.  The only coupling is for focus, and that should not be a problem at 
all irregardless if aperture.

Gene

-------------- Original message from Brian Reid 
<reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>: -------------- 


> Coupling means that the lens tells the camera what F stop it is set to. 
> This allows the camera to measure the exposure and set the shutter speed. 
> 
> 
> > This may be naïve, but how can it not couple at 1.2? The diaphragm is 
> > independent of the camera. 
> 
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