Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you were going from 35 to 50 and you just backup up a bit wouldn't you be around 40? The trick would be to close your eyes when you took the picture. Go with The Force. On 9/18/13 10:22 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > It focuses fine between focal lengths, though I can't say I have > deliberately > checked infinity, but have taken Leica at their word. > > The MATE is not a zoom, and Leica advise against using between FL click > stops > (unlike their advice on the WATE). Since the standard sequence for focal > length of the frame lines is 35-50-28 the FL ring goes from 35 to 50 to 28 > which makes impossible smooth transition through the focal lengths, so it > has > rapid ramps and detents on the FL cams for just those 3 focal lengths. > > > >> ________________________________ >> From: John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2013, 11:34 >> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT. Nikon screen brightness and contrast >> >> >> Does it focus to infinity in between fixed focal lengths? The MATE will >> not >> focus over a couple of metres when between FLs... >> >> john >> ________________________________________ >> >> >> As it happens, it is a zoom lens and is perfectly useable with in between >> focal lengths, it just has no viewfinder appropriate, though the new >> camera >> has a live view function which resolves that. >> FD >> >> On 18 Sep, 2013, at 07:24, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> >>> For the M there is the TRI-ELMAR-M 16-18-21 mm f/4 ASPH >>> And I could convince myself it was a zoom. Its just missing a few of the >>> in >>> between focal lenghs. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/