Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] First shots with a Voigtlander 15mm
From: Per Claesson <per@visimedia.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:53:58 +0200

Can you put such a Voigtlander lens on a Leica M body or what?

/Per

On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 08:26 AM, geebeespaw wrote:

> Having just bought a used 15mm* I was anxious to give it go.
> I took these shots in Fawsley church, Northamptonshire, it was gloomy
> (outside as well as in), the voigtlander wide open is f4.5, I was 
> loaded
> with Agfa 200, I had only a monopod and the meter was telling me half
> a second. Not a recipe for success.
> I decided to shoot a few frames anyway and return some other time in 
> better
> light and with a tripod. I am amazed at the results and have up loaded 
> them
> temporarily for anyone who may be interested. The fourth shot shows the
> only difficulty with the 15mm, if you try to hold the lens in the 
> normal
> manner a pink cast appears bottom left :-)
> The fifth shot is another church at Kings Sutton in Northamptonshire, 
> it is
> full frame and not corrected for perspective at all. I am amazed.
>
> http://www.geebeephoto.com/html/irc.html
>
> Graham
> http://geebeephoto.com
>
> * Sonny Carter, Will Larsen and Bob Baron made me do it :-)
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