Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 20:50:59 -0400 From: ralph fuerbringer <rof@mac.com> Ralph-- I hope you were joking, but just in case you're like the fellows who think that if your lens turns farther on your screw mount it's messed up the focus by screwing in too far, or that roughening the threads will make the lens stop sooner turning in its mount and line up with the right spot on the adapter (both wrong, if you think about it), adjusting the springs on the tube of the Summicron and Summarit doesn't move the position of the lens a bit unless it's customarily in the _wrong_ (drooped) position. - --Michael Subject: Re: [Leica] "notoriously crappy" lens Message-ID: <B5B22EB3.2029%rof@mac.com> References: edward, why be scared poking a summitar? more than likely it'll be improved . i'm surprised you havent thought of poking for a downward tilt. you gain depth of field at no f-stop cost whatsoever! there is no need to see the schmeimflug effect like you have to with a reflex. you already know how the unique way summitar will render the foreground: fuzzy infocus.ralph ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com