Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The early 35mm f3.5 Summaron-M had user removable bug-eyes. S.d. On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Vince Passaro wrote: > 1. A simple question: can the 'eyes' be easily taken off and put on the 50 > Summicron DR or is it like the 35 Summacron where you can't take it off or > you'll wreck the lens' focusing capacity? Which is to say can't you take it > off to use on, say, a G1, or a Bessa 2A, and put it back when you get the > shiny M3 or M4 of your dreams? > > 2. A less simple question: the ongoing thread about Leica lenses on the GF1 > began with some commentary that included language that depicted using the > 50/1.4 on the GF1 as having a "100/1.4" lens on the camera. I see this all > the time, the equation of the half crop with a lens twice as long. But > isn't > what one has really a 50mm image with a 25% crop off all four sides? And a > slightly narrower (more tele) angle of view? Please correct me in however > I've gotten this wrong. But I'm pretty sure that having a half-sized > sensor > is not the same as putting a 2x converter on a full frame. It doesn't yield > the same image at all. Why do people say this? > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information