[Leica] Leica] NZ PAW 26

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

Reason enough to get the M!!  Mine is still on order.

Tina


On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 5:33 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> 
wrote:

> Thanks Ted, I am sorry to say that this is really only possible on the new
> M as it has the P&S feature of an optional electronic display. The DoF is
> so shallow that guesswork does not cut it
>
> john
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> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica] NZ PAW 26
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> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:14:05 +0000
>  From: John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz>
> Subject: [Leica] NZ PAW 26
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
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> > The half-way mark.... The Noctilux is recognized for its wide open looks,
> > also a sharp lens stopped but....who has seen it used wide open as a
> > close-up lens? I have been playing with the OUFRO (~10mm M-M extension
> > tube) on the M, best with 75mm and longer but tried it with the Noctilux
> > ;-) Wide open of course!
> >
> > http://johnmcmaster.com/PAW/2013/26
>
> Hi john
> Thank you for an interesting use of a "LEICA CAMERA & LENS!!!!" Interesting
> given topics of late???????
> My good fortune many years ago when the "CANADIAN DESIGNED & MANUFACTURED
> NOCTILUX IN THE LEICA FACILITIES, BRACEBRIDGE, ONTARIO, CANADA" became
> available. I received the first lens for sale and still have it these long
> past years. Yep just as good in capturing images today??? Well maybe not
> today, only because I'm not quite as assignment active as I was! :-(
>
> I have contemplated selling it on a number of occasions, but I couldn't! As
> it would be like selling one of my children! But in all these years it
> never
> occurred to use it in a macro mode simply because as much as I have great
> respect for my M Leica's! I have always cursed the inability for "macro or
> close-up use!" :-(
>
> So once again thank you for opening my tired old eyes to something new with
> my all time favourite camera!!! I must give it a try with the adapter one
> of
> these days.
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-)
>
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