Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/26
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Hi Marc,
Do you like the results shot with 2X tele-converter for M?
Regards,
David
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Subject: Re: Hektor 135mm 4.5
Author: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us at Internetmail
Date: 08/26/97 7:32 AM
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nearly as handy as the Flektoskop model which superseded it.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
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