Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, 5 May 1998, Thomas Pastorello wrote: > Hi everyone, > For those of you who may remember me, I'm now back on the list and back > to a small M system. I had sold most of my equipment to photojournalist > friends of my daughter (they made me offers I could not refuse) > and had given a basic M system to my daughter for her newspaper work. > She's decided she's strictly an SLR Nikon person and gave me back a small > M system. (She always did take more after her mother.) > I do not have a super-wide and am seriously considering the Zeiss 16mm > Hologon f8.0 modified for Leica M. This list has been very friendly and > helpful in the past. I hope one or more of you can guide me again. Do > you have experience with this lens on the M? Is the adaptation fully > successful? Who does the adaptation work? Do all dealers use the same > technician? For those of you who know it from either the M or G-1 or G-2, > does it live up to the Zeiss name -- as always I'm particularly concerned > about flare control? > Thank you for any help. Tom P. > >