Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Users digest V15 #46
From: Martin Howard <mvhoward@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:02:23 -0500

Doug Cooper wrote, in part:
> 
> I'd like a Heliar -- in fact, that would be the most useful lens for me at
> the moment -- but it seems a waste of this body to use an uncoupled
> lens.  
>

The Heliar is a 15mm lens with f/4.5 as its fastest aperture.  Think about
the depth-of-field of a 15mm lens for a minute: It doesn't NEED to be
coupled.

M.

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