Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. - --=_C4965A1B.EA8BE7F0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline It's spectacular at all ranges. It can be used with a APO-2X extender and still works great at all distances. Try the special Elpro, with the APO-2x. still works great. This lens has got to be the "miracle lens" of the century. Can't say enough good about it. Dave Stedman - --=_C4965A1B.EA8BE7F0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: From [149.59.14.23] purg.atl.com By corp.atl.com (GroupWise SMTP/MIME daemon 4.11) Thu, 12 Jun 97 06:44:15 PDT Received: from mail1.halcyon.com (mail1.halcyon.com [206.63.63.40]) by atl.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA08852 for <dstedm@corp.atl.com>; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 06:45:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.nwnexus.com (smtp1.nwnexus.com [198.137.231.16]) by mail1.halcyon.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA12531 for <dstedm@halcyon.com>; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 06:45:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mejac.palo-alto.ca.us by smtp1.nwnexus.com with SMTP id AA29126 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <dstedm@halcyon.com>); Thu, 12 Jun 1997 06:44:30 -0700 Received: by mejac.palo-alto.ca.us id AA11332; Thu, 12 Jun 97 05:04:52 -0700 Received: by mejac.palo-alto.ca.us id AA11326; Thu, 12 Jun 97 05:04:47 -0700 Received: from mail.a1.nl by mgate.unisource.nl with A1-SMTP (MMTA) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:04:32 +0200 Received: from a1-196-162.a1.nl (a1-196-162.a1.nl [194.151.196.162]) by mail.a1.nl (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA04800 for <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:00:38 +0100 (WET DST) Message-Id: <199706121300.OAA04800@mail.a1.nl> Comments: Authenticated sender is <wjmarkerink@mail.a1.nl> Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.10) Sender: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Precedence: bulk Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 06:09:12 -0700 From: Willem-Jan Markerink <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> To: w.j.markerink@a1.nl, leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: 100/2.8 APO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline On 11 Jun 97 at 19:30, JamesV wrote: > Hello, > > A quick question to you all: Can the Elmirit-R 100mm f/2.8 APO MACRO be > used as an all purpose lens or is it limited to macro photography? I am > wondering if it's optical design limits it in any way. > Additional question: is this lens free of the dreaded IR-focus correction? The 180/2.8 is not, the 180/3.4 *is*, right? - -- Bye, Willem-Jan Markerink The desire to understand is sometimes far less intelligent than the inability to understand <w.j.markerink@a1.nl> [note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!] - --=_C4965A1B.EA8BE7F0--