Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Tina, Thankyou for the opportunity to see one of my all time most favourite Leica lenses and that you make it the beauty it is and was for me. Certainly along with it's 1.4X and 2X extenders. WOW!!!!!!! And when one used both extenders mounted at the same time??????? WOW!! :-) This was a case of me wondering one day? "I wonder what a photo would look like with both extenders on at the same time? So I mounted them very carefully one behind the other and tripped out the door, with a tripod and monopod. This was in a film R8. RESULTS? FANTASTIC ON KODACHROME asa 64! So doing what I usually did when fiddling about testing any gear? I just put it all together and blew away several rolls! Waited to see the results good, bad or ugly. Somehow all my near 60 years using Leica gear I never screwed any gear up! READY? I phoned the Leica head techie guy in Toronto and asked? Now the fun begins as I'm not a techie type and never have been, so I do my own stuff? Then contact LEICA techie people if it might cause some damage? So what I asked would be it good? Bad? Or Ugly to do what I just explained & blew away a couple rolls of Kodachrome! I said nothing about having actually completed the action of shooting and it was souped!? "I put the 2 extenders 1.4 and 2 times on my 280 f2.8 and was that a bad thing to do and or would it cause any damage if I did?????? A very quick response was?" Dumbkoff! Nine nine and a few other words in German! and a quick return to English. "Ted, we do not recommend doing that as the image quality will "probably be a disaster and some lens damage!!!!" Then I asked? "Have you ever done it and seen the results?" Now granted the guys in the Toronto Leica office knew me as a friend as I would drop in and visit when in Toronto on assignment. Or picking up a new lens or whatever? So I said: "Gee you should try it someday as the results are completely mind blowing!" He hung-up! No sense of humour! :-) And I used it rigged like that for several years and always had successful and beautiful images. So Tina someday when you have nothing to do?????????? :-) Do it gently, 2X extender on first followed by the 1.4X Cheers, ted. PS: Your photo shown here? Fabulous! Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley Sent: September-13-17 3:07 PM To: MUGers at yahoogroups.com; Leica Users Group; paw; seephoto; Olympus Camera Discussion Subject: [Leica] IMG: Ted's Lens PESO: I bought Ted's famous 280/2.8 Leica lens that he used for many Olympic games. If you think the SL 24-90 is heavy, just try this one. The lens by itself weighs over 6 pounds. I'm going to have to go to the gym to be able to use it again; however, I can focus it now! I had retired it along with all of my manual focus lenses but my new eye makes it possible to use it again. Here is a hummingbird with Ted's lens: http://www.pbase.com/image/166201489 Just call me Ted (or Doug)! I'm still practicing!! Those hummers move so fast!! Tina -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/ Tina+Manley.html _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus