[Leica] the SL: duck, duck, goose

[Doug Herr]

Gene Duprey wrote:

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  What lens adapter are you using?
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The SL came with the M adapter T so I'm using a cheap FD-to-M adapter.  The small diameter of the M mount causes some mechanical vignetting with the 500 and I expect it would be the same with the long-focus Telyts (400 & 560 f/6.8).

The FD adapter's aperture stop-down ring doesn't stay put (did I mention it's cheap?) so I've added a shim to jam it in the 'stopped-dow' position so I can use the 500's full aperture range.  It takes some fiddling with levers to attach the adapter to the lens.  This is one feature of the FD mount I was never thrilled with.

Doug Herr
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