Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don Bledsoe wrote: > > >> I hear that there are pin hole adapters which can be fitted onto a leica > SM or M body and this can produce pin hole pics with the usual long > exposures required.<< > > >> Anybody got any leads or experience? > > Pardon me for sounding uninformed but why on earth would anyone want to put > a pinhole adapter in a camera as fine (and expensive) as a Leica? Leica > lenses are the absolute finest but someone wants to substitute a pinhole? > Might as well hang a Miranda or Zeiss lens on the thing. I'll gladly give > you a shoe box to put one in if you'll give me your Leica. Barring that, > cut a hunk of cardboard out and poke a pinhole in it and tape it to the > lens mounting flange of your Leica for a try. Should be on par with a > Miranda. > > Don Don, Are you knocking Mirandas...? Dan, I've seen a pinhole lens for the Leica at the LHSA meeting. I think Jimmy Koh had them. The construction is nicer and more substantial than I would expect, but I think performance is as expected. Enlargments from pinhole shots have a quality very different than sharpness. It is a fine piece of over-engineering though. Colin