[Leica] ....180/3.4.....

["tmlee" <clairetm@singnet.com.sg>]

I have heard good things about this lens.......

....but can you tell me more about it... I also have the APO R100/2.8
Mac.... so you can use it for comparison.....First of all , the lens looks
'funny'....... the engraving doesn't look anything like the usual Leica
letters and numbers..... what about its pic taking qualities ?

Peace
TMLee




- -----Original Message-----
From: Cummer Family <cummer@asiaonline.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Saturday, April 07, 2001 4:32 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica R7 Flash problem


>Hello Luggers,
>I need some advice from those of you with flash / shutter synch problem
>experience. You may recall I bought a demo R7 from the Schmidt demo sale in
>Hong Kong a week or so ago. This R7 is an early production model and has
>been used at various shows in Hong Kong and China. I took it to Chengdu for
>a conference and used it to photograph the speakers, planning to use the
>pictures in a book which we will publish of the proceedings of the
>conference. I used a Metz 32 Z 2 flash with a SCA 351 module and shot all
>the pictures with the APO Macro Elmarit R 100mm/2.8. Here is the problem -
>out of the three rolls of Fuji 400 that I shot - on each roll there are
>three or four pictures with a black bar along the bottom of the photo - the
>bar covering up about 1/4 of the picture. The rest of the photo was always
>properly exposed. This indicates to me most probably an intermittant sticky
>shutter, or (less likely) some intermittant communication problem between
>the flash unit and the camera, that keeps the camera from choosing the
>correct flash shutter speed when the flash is turned on (I was using
>program and when the flash is turned on - 1/100 should be automatically
>selected - I confess I may not have always checked that the flash speed was
>displayed as I was busy focusing and framing pictures). Anyone have any
>ideas, advice, suggestions about this problem before I take the camera and
>the photos into Schmidt for a diagnostic on Monday? Welcome all advice.
>Howard.
>PS All my outdoor and non flash pictures were properly exposed and without
>any black bars along the bottom of any of the photos. The Leica lenses,
>including my new (old) demo 180/3.4 APO, were great as expected with
>saturated colour rendition and high contrast. Wonderful wonderful glass!!