Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/13

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Subject: [Leica] M7 & Summicron DR 50.....
From: kennybod at mac.com (Ken Frazier)
Date: Wed Apr 13 09:04:58 2005
References: <r02010500-1038-CA132FF0AC2311D99832000A957A8242@[67.86.119.182]> <923a07b0de6ea2b06bbfe73595cb82e5@earthlink.net>
 
 
On Wednesday, April 13, 2005, at 11:18AM, Feli <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Yep, you can mount the DR on the M7, without a problem. If you want
>to use the eyes you need to remove the small pin, because the M7
>body is 2mm taller than a regular M (same with the M6TTL). I believe it
>simply unscrews; mine snapped off... Several sources I have seen,
>recommend that you only mount the DR with it's focus set to infinity.
>Something about changes to the baffling from the M6 on and focus
>accuracy. I'm not sure if this is entirely true, but set up like this 
>the DR
>does mount a littte smoother on my TTL, whereas it doesn't seem to
>make a difference on the M7. ;-)
>
>feli
>

Thanks, feli.  I didn't want to take a chance of damaging my M7.

Ken
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