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Subject: [Leica] ABSOLUTE DELIGHT
From: luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 23:33:47 +0100
References: <f2f825f20903091453g7f0ecca0xb49c14fc4c7355d2@mail.gmail.com>

Great Victor!, enjoy it!

Saludos cordiales
lluis

El 09/03/2009, a las 22:53, Victor Rubin escribi?:

> Hi All:
> I am so excited I can hardly type this message. I can finally use my  
> Leica
> lenses again- and now digitally. I can do it without the expense of  
> the M8
> which as I have said many times is and will remain out of my reach.  
> What I
> am speaking about is, of course, the Panasonic G1 and the adapter  
> provided
> by Stephen Gandy at Camera Quest. As soon as I saw the adapter was
> available- I realized that I had to get the G1. I traded some analogue
> cameras for it...I won't tell you how little I got for these  
> classics (no
> Leicas involved), but that's the price you pay these days. Anyway,  
> the day
> after I got the G1, PMA showed the GH1...typical.  I sent for the  
> adapter
> and Stephen Gandy was good enough to overnight it to me on Saturday,  
> so I
> received it today. He is very obliging and the adapter is as  
> advertised, in
> other words, utterly spectacular. I yanked out almost all my Leica  
> lenses. A
> Voigt. Ultron 28 mm 1.9, (56mm equiv. the "normal" lens), a 35 mm  
> Ultron
> 1.7(70mm equiv) my Summicron 50, etc.etc. They all worked and even  
> my 0.95
> Canon (converted for M use) now works with the Panasonic as an 0.95  
> 100mm
> lens. This is wild stuff. All this on a $600.00 body. I slapped on  
> the 28 mm
> and ran to a local shop where I imaged the young lady behind the  
> counter. I
> have to remember there is no image stabilizer, so I will have to be  
> steadier
> in the future- but I enclose the shot the first of many, many I hope  
> with
> this outfit. I cannot recommend it highly enough Bests: vroger
>
> http://v-images.smugmug.com/gallery/7556755_Lh3WE#488291961_2Mugg-L-LB
>
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