Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i have a 40mm finder made by olympus. what was it for? anyhow a perfect mate for someone who loves the 40 summicron but wants accurate framing on m1 to 6. coming attraction, friday for sale.the ceo of panasonic says you can walk into one of his custom bicyle shops, be meassured, pick color from millions,bike will be finished & packed w/o human help in l hr. but he makes you wait two weeks because he says anticipation is better than actuality. if you knew something you wanted badly was ready but arbritarily held back for would you sing the r&h song glad to be unhappy? if you cant wait til friday : rof@mac.com.ralph > From: Jlaird@aol.com > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:06:00 EDT > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] 40mm Summicron Mystery > > I wasn't too worried about the focusing problems, the photos from both the M3 > and M2 look great. I was just befuddled as to why the lens would work fine on > one body and not the other. But I think you all have more than answered that > question and thanks for all the replies. > > Jim > > In a message dated 07/31/2000 10:24:44 AM Central Daylight Time, > dpost@triad.rr.com writes: > > << Since it is modestly 'wide', is it all that critical, except for very wide > apertures? > With a wider lens, focus at infinity seems pretty much a moot point- cose is > good enough, and focusing extremely close just begs for distortion that may > well obviate any question of focus- in the mid range- the DOF would, it > seems, make it less critical. > N'est-ce pas? > Dan ( who usually 'zone' focuses his 35 lenses when outside) POst >>