Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 1:40 PM -0400 5/22/00, Stanley E Yoder wrote: >Excerpts from mail: 22-May-100 Leica Users digest V17 #111 by Leica >Users digest@mejac >> Sherry K. had mentioned to me that 9 out of 10 40mm lenses that were made >> for the CL weren't perfect at infinity on the M5 >[snip] > >Strange, that. It would seemingly have nothing to do with the cam and >RF; rather, with variances in mount-to-filmplane distance, which I would >think Leitz would make to very close tolerances (using shims, etc.). >Leitz had no problem with using M lenses on the CL (except the wides >that would foul the metercell arm); so if CL lenses won't inf. focus on >Ms, then M lenses wouldn't on CLs either, nicht? M lenses work on CL's; see my previous post about C lenses on M's. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com