Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Perhaps your memory isn't faulty at all. The grip my wife uses is the Leica version. (She won't shoot M without it!) Cheers! kw >Hi Ken, > >Well, I may have been working on bad assumptions and faulty memories. >The last time I had a goggled lens was in '93 or so, and I thought I >remembered not being able to mount it with the pre-M grip installed >(this was the non-Leica, US-made grip that was available before >Leica's M-grip). But now you have me wondering whether my memory >could be entirely wrong. I thought I was on this planet in '93, but >maybe not...I"ll have to try a goggled lens soon and see what the >story really is. > >Thanks, > >PB > > >On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:23:16 -0400, Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com> wrote: > >>Item b. below is of interest to me. I just went and tried >>mounting/dismounting my wife's 35 RF Summicron from her M3 equiped with >>M-grip. There was no interference although it was close. Perhaps there is >>enough difference between the Summaron and the Summicron to account for >>this? >> >>Cheers! >> >>>b. Interference with M-Grips: If you use, plan to use or might ever >>>want to use the accessory M-Grip, realize you will have to remove >>>either the grip or the goggles (some goggles are removeable) each time >>>you mount and dismount the lens. I now dislike using my M bodies >>>without the grip, so this is a pretty big impediment for me. > >Paul C. Brodek >Kobe, Japan >pcb@iac.co.jp - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits LHSA, MEA, LAW preferred---> <wilcox@mail.tir.com> <kwilcox@gfn.org>