Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pascal jotted down the following: >> There already is a digital body compatible with R lenses: the Canon D30. >> A dumb adapter fits any R lens to any EOS body. Novoflex sells 'em. > > haha, jolly good joke :-) No joke. > what about automatic diafragm ? Stop down metering. Besides, you're implying that you'd use Leica glass at any other aperture than wide open? ;) > how would you focus adequately with an AF viewfinder? There's this fabulous new invention out, called a 'ground glass'. It lets you focus the lens manually and you can see when the image in in focus on this 'ground glass'. A bit like a rangefinder patch, only you don't have two images -- or so I'm told ;) M. - -- Martin Howard | "Why don't they make gravestones Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | cheerier?" email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- Nigel Tufnel www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------