Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/15

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Subject: [Leica] 2X extenders
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:16:53 -0600
 
The R extenders do have maximum and minimum aperture limits. The 2x is, as
you have said, limited to f2.0 and under and the 1.4x extender is limited to
f2.8 to f22. My old Nikon (201) recommend not setting a higher aperture as
it would not result in an actual higher aperture and the extra light
bouncing around would degrade the image.

John Collier

> From: "Richard W. Hemingway" <rheming@attglobal.net>
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  I guess you have seen Ted's post.  It seems to me a
> long time ago in one of Leica's old catalogs that they said that the 2X
> extender could be used with  any lenses from the 50 and longer, but that if
> it was 1.4  you could only use it at 2.0, or something like that???  Does
> anyone remember that - or has anyone used the 2x with the 80???
>