Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/30

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Subject: [Leica] new Puts article
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu Jun 30 22:29:37 2005

On 6/29/05 2:52 PM, "John Black" <jblack@ambio.net> typed:

> <big snip>
>> 
>> "DOF is inversely proportional to format size"
>> 
> <bigger snip>
> 
> Back when I used a Oly Pen F extensively, the only lens worth much in the
> system was the wonderful 38/3.5 Macro (I may be off on the numbers, but it
> was a normal range, slow macro).  That lens was a great favorite of mine 
> for
> macrophotography of small flowers and insects because, I swear, I could get
> more DOF than with normal lens macros in full 24X36 format.
> 
> For those of you unfamiliar with the Pen F system, it was a very innovative
> interchangeable lens SLR using half-frame format size (18X24). Most of the
> glass made for it was forgettable ranging from average to poor, but the 38
> macro was a star performer. Format about the same size as a 1.6X sensor.
> 
> JB
BUT
Isn't there something where because of the small flange distance or whatever
you can put a Leica M lens on it?!


I'll have to land that 38 macro. My other Olympus Pen f glass is amazingly
bad.

Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/





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