Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]doug herr thinks a tilt=shift adapter would be cool. I apologise if the following response belongs in the heavily sweating political correctness thread. beside the astronomical expense the mechanism would be too monica. i have the 90 canon t&s.while it's wonderful the mechanics are fat. Also remember that only 645 contax has an auto diaphram that could conveively work. the jena(prakisix) would be manual, the current hasselblad lens you would have to press the stop down lever before shooting then turn the diaphram all the way to max aperature and repeat the procedure or leave it stopped down. I have devised many weird and wonderful adapters such as r to m when leitz dropped the ball, olympus to eos( the former's 24 shift is vastly superior to canon's),eos to m (use max aper only w/ 20 to35 sharp 3,5-4.2 zoom with zeiss finder showing all fields but tape leaving only 35 projected ala m3 with entire view the 21, adapter to put minolta mirrorlockup 21mm superwide biogon clone on m, also zess designed 15mm pentax superwide rectilinear (pam anderson front element) on m. if interested in any of these use rof@mac.com i realize this response might have been more appropriate in political correctness discussion but that thread is sweating profusely . > From: Doug Herr <telyt560@cswebmail.com> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: 18 Jul 2000 11:04:41 -0700 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT:New Contax N Digital in 2001, was: New Contax > autofocus SLR > > On Tue, 18 July 2000, John Coan wrote: > >> >> Yes, this will be very nice. I might postpone my purchasing any other >> digital camera. >> >> Also, the interchangable lenses will be the stable of new autofocus >> lenses for the Contax N, PLUS all the AF lenses for the Contax 645 >> medium format (using the center portion only). >> >> PLUS, there is an adaptor to fit Hasselblad lenses and Carl Zeiss Jena >> lenses on the 645. These thus should also work on the N digital with >> the announced adaptor for the 645 (using two adaptors). And again, >> using only the center part of the medium format lens. >> >> For once, with 6 megapixels, a digital camera will actually be able to >> use the sort of image a Zeiss lens delivers at the focal plane. >> > > Instead of using only the center portion of the medium-format lens' field, > wouldn't a tilt/shift adapter be cool? > > Doug Herr > Sacramento > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt > ___________________________________________________ > The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe > Better! Faster! More Powerful! > 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! > http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/ > > > >