Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Mark. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2:54 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] MFT>M adapter > An impressive image Jim! That butterfly looks like a cutout to impress Sir > Arthur Conan Doyle! > I have a 135 Elmar whose head of course does come off and its one of the > more useful things you can have if you'd gotten into having a Visoflex > System as it focus super close and goes to infinity and everything in > between with little trouble or extra add on's. > Its not optimized for close and I do thing that's a big deal. > I try not to get to involved with close up photography not using a macro > lens of some sort. A lens which is flat field and optimized for close not > far. As they tend to be really worth it in the close up department. And > its > not as if they're had to find cheap and used in a million incarnations. > And > enlarging lenses fit the bill as well. > > I have the 135 APO f3.4 Telyt M and it shoots one of the smaller areas of > any Leica lens one could call it macro in that sense. A main reason I got > it was for doing tight head shots of people. > > I paid 85 bucks for a 135 f3.5 Nikkor I think I still have somewhere. It > would be more endearing for its faults than for its perfections. > > I have a 135mm 2.8 El Nikkor enlarging lens which I can put on my Viso. As > some other El Nikkor enlarging lenses like a 40, 63, 80 > A f4 Apo Rodagon 75mm optimized for 1:1 and a 100mm f 2.8 Componon. All > selling for a song as people start using their darkrooms for potting > sheds. > Some day I'll see them again and get to play with them. With my New M10. > Or > other enabling device for dumb glass. > > > > -- > Mark R. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > > >> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:43:20 -0600 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] MFT>M adapter >> >> Mark, >> >> I don't have a Leica-R 135, but this Pentax Takumar 135 is one of the >> sharpest lenses that I have ever owned. Here, it is used at close range. >> (For distance, I normally use the Leica Telyt-R 250/4) >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/RoS+with+Visitor.jpg.html >> >> The only problem is that it only focuses down to about 5 ft unless I add >> an >> extension tube. >> >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:44 PM >> Subject: Re: [Leica] MFT>M adapter >> >> >>> I'd love to see some shots you took with the 135 Elmar! Does that turn >>> out >>> to be a 270 Elmar! Sounds pretty cool to me! >>> >>> -- >>> Mark R. >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ >>> >>> >>>> From: Howard Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com> >>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:21:17 +0800 >>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Subject: [Leica] MFT>M adapter >>>> >>>> >>>>> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:09:55 -0500 >>>>> From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] MFT>M adapter >>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>> >>>>> Have people put their pix taken with 4/3's cameras and Leica glass up >>>>> on >>>>> their LUG gallery gallery's? >>>>> >>>>> And as far as MFT goes >>>>> Don't forget the LS >>>>> L.S.M.F.T >>>>> "Lucky Strike means fine tobacco" >>>>> That's from 1955 I just looked it up. >>>>> I never smoked! But I sure breathed enough of it. >>>> >>>> Hi Mark, >>>> Here is a folder of M lens pictures on Micro 4/3rds cameras. >>>> >>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/M+Lenses+to+Micro+4-3rds/> >>>> >>>> I put it up a couple of years ago. Do enjoy. >>>> Howard >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >