Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/21

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Subject: [Leica] The Fuji M-Adapter
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 19:42:23 -0500
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Thanks.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Burleson" <leica at jayburleson.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] The Fuji M-Adapter


>I don't have any experience with any other adapters.
> What you gain with the Fuji one is this:
> A button on the mount to go directly to the lens focal length setting in 
> the camera menu. This saves a considerable number of steps.
> If you have an X-Pro1, the proper finder frames will display in the 
> Optical finder.
> And it is robustly built, with correct flange specifications. 
> Inexpensive ones might not be so exact.
> 
> The only reason why I got the Fuji one is that I received a substantial 
> discount on a used one.
> 
> Jay
> 
> On 5/21/2013 5:13 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Jay,
>>
>> Thanks for posting your test conclusions.  Since there is a wide price 
>> difference between the Fuji M adapter and those of third parties, do 
>> you feel that the Fuji adapter is really needed?
>> In my case, I would need both M and R adapters.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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