Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/27

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Subject: [Leica] Back to Leica R lenses- instead of Panasonic lust
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Mon Feb 27 07:21:18 2006
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Jonathan,
you get used to it very quickly.
Having grown up with the likes of Yashica M42 mount SLRs (my first was a 
TL Electro), where you had to do this anyway, it doesn't bother me at all.
Douglas

Jonathan Borden wrote:

> Tina,
>
>> At 09:45 PM 2/26/2006, you wrote:
>>
>>> I mentioned that some photogs were using the Leica lenses via  
>>> adapter- and lo and behold- there is a comparison written up. You  
>>> can read the end of the article at the newstand in a few minutes  
>>> without buying the mag. Stasys
>>
>>
>> Yes, Mark Dubovoy says in the article that the combination of the  
>> Canon digital body and the Leica lenses is unbeatable - it is truly  
>> state of the art.  But we knew that ;-)   Don't just read the  
>> article at the newsstand.  Buy it.  Photo Techniques is one of the  
>> few photo magazines worth subscribing to.
>
>
> How does it work using R lenses in "stop down mode" with an EOS. Do  
> you have to focus wide open, and then manually stop down the lens  
> before shooting? Is this cumbersome?
>
> Jonathan
>
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In reply to: Message from stasys1 at cox.net (Stasys Petravicius) ([Leica] Back to Leica R lenses- instead of Panasonic lust)
Message from images at InfoAve.Net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Back to Leica R lenses- instead of Panasonic lust)
Message from jonathan at openhealth.org (Jonathan Borden) ([Leica] Back to Leica R lenses- instead of Panasonic lust)