Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think the best person to answer this question is Tom A himself (away on holiday). I have heard that the 21mm's focusing accuracy is thrown off by the addition of the goggles. Does anyone else have any info. John Collier > From: Skip Williams <skipwilliams@pobox.com> > > Jeremy, > > You may not understand my recommendations. Tom A had a 21/3.4 Super > Angulon custom-fitted with the goggles from a 35/2 M3-era Summicron. He > also had the 21 modified so that it brings up the 28mm frameline on an > M6. So when you look through the finder, you see the 28mm framelines > expanded to the 21mm's angle of view. The rangefinder focusing is not > affected. Yes, it's a bit larger package, but not much more than the lens > and a separate finder pair. > > Skip > > At 3/24/00 10:27 AM +0000, you wrote: >> Skip, >> But the drawback is the size of the lens package you're carrying around AND >> the fact that you loose your rangefinder focusing except at infinity! >> >> I'd certainly prefer a dedicated w/a Leica, but the difficulty might be the >> correct triggering of the frames with older lenses. As there was never a >> defined setting for their frame triggering lugs I suspect that 21 and 24mm >> lenses might trigger a variety of framelines. >> If we work on the basis that there are only 3 positions available for >> frameline triggering it follows that if we see the range as 21 - 35 to >> include 24 and 28, then there are 4 focal lengths to look after, as on the M4 >>