Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: 135mm
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:57:47 -0500

At 09:52 PM 3/16/2000 -0500, Doug Cooper wrote:
>
>In general, how do people feel about shooting with lenses longer than 90mm
>with a rangefinder?  I've never done it.
>

I regularly use 13.5cm or 135mm lenses on all my Leicas.  Occasionally,
I'll go wild and do a 4/17cm combination -- my 2/8.5cm CZJ Sonnar with a 2X
Ukrainian tele-converter, RF-coupled.  The camera's RF is precise enough to
accomodate the mix (IIIc, IIIf BD, M3, M6).

Marc

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