Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hal Robinson wrote: > This may be a stupid question but I have been curious about it for some time > now.. Has a lens ever been made for a leica m that "zooms". More like it > has the ability to change focal lengths while on the camera ie. from 35 to > 50 to 90 I know you can't have a true zoom on a rangefinder but to have a > lens that will change from one focal length to another would be very helpful > especially when there is not a lot of time to change lenses. Thanks, Hal > ps. sorry if this is found truly stupid but I have been wondering for a long > time. Hal Robinson It does not seem to be a stupid question: 1. It is possible to have a zoom in a rangefinder (at least in theory): The Rangefinder needs a zoom itself. The 2.8/135 shows, that it is possible to change the focal length of the rangefinder. 2. What you seem to have in mind is something I would like to have too: some kind of a 'lens revolver', where you can mount several lenses and quickly change from one to another. I think old motion picture cameras used to have it and from Leica there was a universal viewfinder in this technique. christoph - -- "I [..] am rarely happier then when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. Ten seconds, I tell myself, is ten seconds. Time is valuable and ten seconds' worth of it is well worth the investment of a days's happy activity working out a way to save it". -- Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"