Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/10

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Old Hassy lens
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:54:00 -0800
References: <3.0.2.32.20020210211805.018a05b8@roanoke.infi.net>

At 06:48 PM 2/10/2002 -0800, Henry Ting wrote:

>I cannot
>figure why Hasselblad cannot design an internal
>mechanism to change the floating elements based on the
>focusing distance instead of forcing the photographer
>to do it. I don't know about others, I quite often
>shoot with this lens handheld, and more often than
>not, forgot to adjust the floating after focusing.


Henry,

Hasselblad lenses without a shutter (F & FE lenses) do automatically adjust 
the elements as you focus. It is the lenses with a shutter that require the 
user to make the adjustment. Something about not enough room left over 
after the shutter to put in the auto adjustment mechanism.

Jim

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