Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug, Check out the Canon 300 2.8 FD lenses. This is the same optical formula as the EOS version but is much cheaper. Your difficulty will be adapting to your beloved SL. You might check what Ken Ruth would charge to adapt the mount to SL. With fluorite lenses back focus is not critical as they focus well past infinity to adjust for expansion of the fluorite element. Of course, you could pick up a 20D and one of the FD-EOS adapters... Total cost will be around $3000 which is about what one of the 300 2.8 EOS lenses go for. Alternatively, see if Rich Pinto will rent you one (280 APO) for reasonable amounts of money. The issue with the 50 Summilux is that Leica can not make them fast enough for demand. I truly suspect that it is a very hard lens to build. Also, with the dollar what it is, I think that Solms is sending most of them to the Asian market where the returns are better. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Herr Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 11:20 AM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] I'm done kicking myself OK, so I'm a klutz. I get "klutz attacks" where for no reason known to humanity I'll briefly become so clumsy that nothing anywhere near me is safe from being dropped, stepped on, run into... you get the picture. So yesterday I have this klutz attack and the 280 APO+chrome SL2 are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Do I need to go into the details? Lens and camera are on a FedEx airplane to the hospital in Northvale; the lens will have to be transferred to intensive care in Solms. @&!!* I'm now a few hours away from the actual event and the self-butt-kicking has subsided; panic has gradually set in. Going without the 280 APO for any length of time is a problem, and given the time it's taken John Collier's lens to return I have nightmares of going the entire spring and most of the summer - prime time for the 280 - with nothing in the 300mm range. Suitable fill-ins? I'm open to suggestion, either brand L or brand N. There's really no substitute for an APO-Telyt. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information