Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/10

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Subject: Re: SL to M?
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 10:44:28 -0500

At 07:51 AM 11/10/97 GMT, Phil Payne wrote:
>Yes, there's an adapter (22228?) that was made for mounting Leicaflex
>lenses on to the Leicina Special, which had an M-series lens mount.
>
>No rangefinder coupling, though, so there's little point.

Well, no.  Scale focusing works perfectly well with a lot of lenses.  With
long lenses, it works if you are taking far-away pictures clearly at
infinity though the narrow DOF of these lenses means closer work is a pain
without a tape measure!

But what about 21mm lenses and the like?  There, DOF is so great that scale
focusing works like a charm.  

I scale-focus my 20mm Russar without a problem.  And I have the M42 adapter
from the Leicina, and shoot Russian and East German class from time to time
on my M's.  It works:  you just have to be careful.

Marc


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