[Leica] Re: what's the point of a leica pinhole???

[Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>]

At 05:15 PM 4/6/01 -0400, Jeff Moore wrote:
>2001-04-06-16:27:55 Kyle Cassidy:
>> why make a pinhole out of a leica body cap?
>
>Fer one thing, you can get closer to the filmplane, and thus get a
>shorter "focal length" -- kinda like 30mm, I seem to recall.  So if
>you want a wideangle pinhole camera, the Leica's a better bet than an
>SLR, which would be more likely to have a 50mm-ish perspective.

Do they make a retrofocus body cap for wideangle use on SLR's ?

Thanks,

Jim