Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/07

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Subject: [Leica] CV12 on M8
From: summicron at jam.rr.com (Frank F. Farmer)
Date: Thu Dec 7 17:49:38 2006
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Excellent!  I'm glad to hear the CV 12 works well on the M8.  I wonder 
why I would vignette less than the 15?

Frank Farmer
Jackson, Miss.

On Dec 4, 2006, at 11:25 PM, Howard Cummer wrote:

>
>> Message: 31
>> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 22:59:50 -0600
>> From: "Frank F. Farmer" <summicron@jam.rr.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Some shots with the CV 15mm 4.5 and the M8...
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
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>> Yes, but the 12mm heliar becomes something like a 16mm lens on the M8,
>> doesn't it?  That is still pretty wide!  Does anyone know if that lens
>> can be used on the camera?
>>
>> Frank Farmer
>> Jackson, Miss.
>
> Frank,
> I used my Heliar 15 and Henning's Heliar 12 on the M8 in Vancouver 
> last summer and the 12 shows less vignetting on the 8 than the 15 and 
> both lenses vignette less on the 8 than on the RD 1.
> Cheers
> Howard (in HK)
>
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Replies: Reply from henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] CV12 on M8)
In reply to: Message from cummer at netvigator.com (Howard Cummer) ([Leica] CV12 on M8)