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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 15/6/2011: playing with my new 12mm lens
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:36:31 -0500
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Creative use!!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Olympus Camera 
Discussion" 
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Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 4:26 AM
Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 15/6/2011: playing with my new 12mm lens


> On a bit of whim, I picked up a second-hand 12mm Cosina/Voigntlander lens 
> for my M8. This is the first version, which is not rangefinder-coupled. So 
> to use it on an M8 or any other M (or screw mount Leica), you focus by 
> estimating the distance. Given the depth of field involved, this is not 
> hard to do.
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> But I played with the lens on my GF-1. Of course, when mounted on a MFT 
> camera, this lens does focus in the normal way, and as this image shows, 
> it is eminently possible to achieve critical focus:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_netUM#1341218512_tp6DQ8J-O-LB
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> But really, that is not what this lens is for. It is a lens you set on 2 
> meters and do happy snaps, for example like this image at the vet:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_netUM#1341218556_QFSh5K4-O-LB
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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> YNWA
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