Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/17

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Subject: [Leica] Leicanon 5D Wide angle R use?
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Fri Feb 17 19:41:07 2006
 
on 2/17/06 7:36 PM, leicaluvr@comcast.net at leicaluvr@comcast.net wrote:

> I hate to reopen the whole wide angle R-lens on EOS body debate, but has
> anyone had experience with wide-angle R lenses on the new EOS 5D, 
> particularly
> the later 3-cam 19mm R, or 15mm 3.5 3-cam?
> 
> Tom Schofield

I predict mirror crash.  According to Bob Luhrs (info to be added to review
web pages) the late 19 requires a lot of grinding on lens element retaining
rings and such to clear the 5D's mirror.  Might be better to trim the
mirror.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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