Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/07

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Subject: [Leica] Leica R system
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 23:11:57 -0500 (CDT)

Both Doug and i use the Leica Long Telyts with our DMR's

gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, April 7, 2014 10:59:08 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica R system

Could you name two people using DMR and long Leica lenses for that ;-) 

john
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John,
Other than as a theoretical possibility, do you know of anyone using these 
combos for wildlife out in the field? I would like to see the results, they 
should be interesting...
Cheers
Jayanand

Sent from my iPad

> On 08-Apr-2014, at 9:09 am, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:
>
> True, the long lens (350mm) they 'announced' years back has never been 
> released. However they make adapters allowing long Hasselblad H (300mm) or 
> Contax 645 (350mm) lenses with autofocus/aperture, or manual focus with 
> Mamiya 645 (300mm or rare 500mm), Pentax 67 (400mm) or Hasselblad V 
> lenses. Lenses have a 0.8x magnification to get 35mm FF equivalents. Or a 
> very expensive adaptation to the 400mm f4 APO-Telyt ;-)
>
> john
> ________________________________________
>
>
>> A Leica S gives an even more dramatic upgrade  in the DSLR arena for your
>> final results with its larger format and super primo auto focus and 
>> cutting
>> edge second to none modern glass.
>
> one of the SLR's advantages over the rangefinder is the ability to frame 
> and focus long lenses accurately.  In the S system Leica has yet to take 
> advantage of this capability.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>

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