Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric asked: Subject: Re: [Leica] digital ramblings > Don: > >>If are using the 5D then the new 19, the 35 F1.4 in particular will not >>work >>without hitting your mirror. You should be fine with any of the fifties, >>the 85, 90, 100 macro, any of the Telyts, and the 24mm. > > How do you find out whether there is sufficient mirror clearance without > waiting for a sickening sound on the first exposure? :)<<< Hi Eric, Or you could do like I did before any conversations came on screen about hitting lenses. I started locking each lens in place, look through viewfinder, stoop down to . 8.0 and try to focus, if I could see something OK, the test was over. OF and click another on advance and shoot a few times, stopped down to f 8.0, try focus if I could see , next lens! No clunks and bangs so I assume they all worked. :-) Obviously later on the list the hitting the lens came up, I near panicked. Then remembered I'd already done my own tests and everything was cool! So I just carried on when I wanted to use a leica lens. ;-) ted