Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/29

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Subject: [Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on Nikon
From: leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:34:11 -0800
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I have seen those, too.  They are cheaper than KatzEye and get pretty good 
reviews.  Let  us know when it is fitted and how you like it for manual 
focusing.  If it work for you  I might give it a try.  Which screen did you 
get?

I would expect zero metering problems with the Nikkors and Planar since they 
are made for the camera.  There, however, is no communication between the 
Leica lens and camera of any kind, including max aperture.

Aram

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From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 2:03 AM
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on Nikon

> I have a Brightscreen split image/microprism for my D800E (still not 
> fitted!) but I think the company has no folded.
> http://www.brightscreenstore.com/
>
> john
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> I also have a KatzEye split image/microprism screen for the D7000 (to use 
> the manual focus CZ Planar 100) It greatly improves brightness and  manual 
> focus useability with conventional AF Nikkors here too.
> No such screen will be made for the D600 and I think the D800 iterations 
> either.
> I had zero metering problems whatsoever with Nikkors nor the Planar 
> personally.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff
>
> 


In reply to: Message from cummer at netvigator.com (H&ECummer) ([Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on Nikon)
Message from leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans) ([Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on Nikon)
Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on Nikon)
Message from john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster) ([Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on Nikon)