Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Hexar RF - Leica M incompatibility issue - finally an answer?
From: John Straus <Mail@SlideOne.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:59:59 -0600

on 12/20/01 12:19 PM, Jeffery L.Smith at jsmith45@bellsouth.net wrote:

> I nailed the coffin shut by taking a picture of...a nail. I stuck a
> small nail in a piece of foam (from a camera case insert), stuck it up
> on my wrought iron fence, and shot it wide open at about 9 feet with all
> 4 of my lenses. In was in focus for all four lenses, so I felt that both
> camera (a Bessa-T) and lenses were in agreement.

Wouldn't it be better to test all those lenses as you did at a minimum
focusing distance wide open? Then you'd be using the narrowest DoF giving
you a less "forgiving" range than 9ft...? Just asking...
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John 
Chicago, IL 
http://SlideOne.com
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