Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Javier, Your latest message confuses me. You speak of using EOS zooms on R bodies, but that adapter does not exist. The film plane to lens flange distance is too great to permit proper infinity focus. The other way around works. I count myself and Joseph Yao as two people who have used adapters to fit R lenses on EOS bodies. Specifically, D30's to have a digital camera with R optics. After all, I'll be dead by the time Leica came out with one. The Novoflex adapters are available at bhphoto and calumet. No, they're not cheap, but it's a cool tool... It's also nice to have a cheap EOS body as a backup, with more versatility available too. Of course, everything is manual focus and stop down metering. This setup won't solve your manual focus problems however. I have found it difficult to accurately focus with the clear Canon screens; they were designed with AF lenses in mind. Best Regards, John Gong - --- Javier Perez <summarex@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi > It's a God send for me because I'm loosing too many > family and pet pics on account of stupid focusing > mistakes and my eyesight isn't getting any better. > I really like the better EOS cameras. The only problem > is I can't use the 19 except with an RT or RS because > it will hit the mirror. Whatever the case I would love > to be able to keep using my Rs and just spend on the > cheap and surprisingly good Canon zooms for casual > pics > The limitations are no meter coupling and auto > aperture > It doesn't bother me at all since I would use them for > slow to take pics of landscapes and portraits. The AF > still works and if you get an EOS 1, 1n, 1v or others > you can shoot near wide open in daylight with the 8000 > top speed. > I'll have to get one eventually but not at that price! > Someday maybe I'll be taking digital pics with a 180 > Elmarit on a 1d!!!!!!! The 1d is fast coming down in > price and is the only current solution for digital > pics with R lenses. > See Ya > Javier __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html