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Subject: [Leica] [OM] IMG: E-M1 with Manual Focus Lens
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 10:44:01 -0500
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Thanks for the kind words.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 8/24/2019 9:27 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> You certainly did well focusing it!
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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>> On 22 Aug 2019, at 21:28, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>>
>> I wanted to see how the OM-D E-M1 handled with a manual lens.  I chose a 
>> lens I picked up in a Fort Worth consignment shop in the 1980s, when I 
>> was shooting a Pentax Spotmatic.  It is a Soligar CD (Computer Designed) 
>> 35mm f/2.0 lens in M42 mount, and it focuses down below 1 ft.  Still not 
>> much around except small subjects, and the sun was ducking in and out of 
>> the clouds.  Here is an image.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190822-P8220118.JPG.html
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>> Looks useful.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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In reply to: Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] IMG: E-M1 with Manual Focus Lens)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] [OM] IMG: E-M1 with Manual Focus Lens)