Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/28

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Subject: RE: [Leica] New Tri Elmar and Konica RF compatibility
From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:28:24 -0600

Howard,

Ever since hearing about the Tri-Elmar, I have been attracted to it. It,
with my Hexar RF, would seem to be a very nice travel or street camera.
Please let us know how it fares in its image quality. If you can send me
some scans offline, that would be great.

I don't NEED a Tri-Elmar, but it would be nice being able to buy ONE lens
that I don't need instead of three separate lenses that I don't need!

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Howard
> Cummer
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:10 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] New Tri Elmar and Konica RF compatibility
>
>
> This Christmas, with the help of Dr. Yao, Santa brought me a Tri Elmar
> which I have mated with my Konica RF. This is a delightful
> combination for
> street and people photography with the Konica's aperture preferred
> programming taking care of exposures, and the ability to move between 28,
> 35, and 50 angles of view bringing fresh, fast agility to changing views.
> The motor drive also speeds up working. The maximum F4.0 stop does limit
> low light work, but then sometimes you can't have everything! For
> low light
> work I have been using flash - the Leica SF20 on automatic using either
> F5.6 or F11 and these apertures have provided me lots of depth of
> field for
> the people group shots I like to take. Two note-worthy points, my
> Tri Elmar
> brings up the frame lines on the Konica flawlessly, and I have not been
> able to detect any focussing problems at all. Throwing my 90mm
> Elmarit into
> my smallest camera bag, together with the Tri Elmar, the SF 20 flash and
> the Konica, produces a very compact travelling kit and is making
> me very happy.
> Thank you Santa!
> Howard.
>
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