Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:11 PM 3/5/02 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 18:03:27 +1100 >From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> >Subject: [Leica] Re: 40mm Summicron on other M mount cameras >I can --- works fine, both in Minolta and Leica elmar c >configurations. I use the latter now on M3, M6 both .72 and .85 sans >problems. > > BTW the 40 Summicron is a very nice lens, compact and produces the > >usual saturated Leica look. >Agree completely, it was one of the 3 reasons I got hooked on the >rangefinder as my major camera, the other two being the 28 and the >90mm lenses for the CLE > >About my 40 Summicron, I dropped it one night about 6 feet off a > >stone wall to the pavement below while taking pictures of the bridge > >across the Danube between Buda and Pest. >VERY clumsy Howard. Some notable people have flung themselves off >bridges in that area as I recall. Thanks Alastair, ;-). Now who flung themselves off what bridge? And shall we start a thread about the terrible things we have done to our Leicas? (Maybe time to recycle Ted's cows**t story) Best to Helen, Cheers, Howard. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html