Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:50 AM 8/26/97 -0400, Marvin Moss wrote: > 135mm is the longest lens that can be used with a rangefinder >camera. It's not quite that absolute. It probably would be safer to say that Leitz/Leica came to regard 135mm as the longest focal length readily used on their rangefinder cameras. Komura made a 200mm RF-coupled lens which, with extreme care, could be made to work with the Leica, and I have a 2X Ukrainian tele-converter, RF-coupled, with which I have taken hand-held shots with a 2/85 Jupiter-9 (yielding a 4/170 combination) on my M6 -- but you have to hold your breath and be VERY still! Zeiss Ikon, having a longer baseline on the Prewar Contax, made the original 2.8/180 Olympia Sonnar in an RF-coupled mount -- but that wasn't nearly as handy as the Flektoskop model which superseded it. They, too, came to regard 135mm as the upper limit for regular use. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!