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Subject: [Leica] two questions for the LUGger expertise
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:12:08 -0700
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The rear mount f2.8, with the eyes, has been successfully cannibalized, by 
TA, for use with the 21mm SA.
S.d.

On Apr 15, 2010, at 6:58 AM, Vince Passaro wrote:

> slobodan,
> yes i knew that and should have stipulated the summaron 35/2.8, from which
> the eyes cannot, apparently, be successfully removed.
> vince
> 
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:47 AM, slobodan Dimitrov
> <s.dimitrov at charter.net>wrote:
> 
>> 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?
>>> 
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Message from passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro) ([Leica] two questions for the LUGger expertise)