Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Edi Weitz <weitz@math.uni-hannover.de> wrote (about 16mm lenses): > And for those of you who already have it: Is such a super-wide > angle lens really of any use for a viewfinder camera? Just curious... One of my favourite lenses is a Canon 19mm/3.5 that I use on Leica IIIa and Zorki screwmount bodies via an adaptor. The lens is FL-mount, so there's no rangefinder coupling, but for a lens that short it doesn't matter. It cost a lot less than a Hologon of any vintage. This thing was intended for viewfinder use, even with Canon SLRs; it came with an accessory finder and you were supposed to use it mirror-up, it's a non-retrofocus design. I don't think I've ever been in a situation with it where I'd have had any use for reflex viewing. For the kind of ultra-close people-in-crowds photography I most like doing (if your subject has to take a step to punch you, you're too far away), it's great. There was a screwmount version of the same lens; I suppose this had rangefinder coupling. Another 9 degrees, like the Hologon, would be nice, but I can't afford 1000 quid for it... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- jack@purr.demon.co.uk - Jack Campin, 2 Haddington Place, Edinburgh EH7 4AE