Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]studies in blue quite lovely places and compostions Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Mar 10, 2009, at 7:21 PM, Jan Decher wrote: > This adapter is quite intriguing. I like the general design & > size of the > G1 but am somewhat wary of the EVF. OTOH my current digital option > (Canon > G10) has a very dinky optical VF, no flexible LCD and of course > can't take > Leica lenses. All my current M lenses would turn into > telephotos... Even > the ZM Biogon 21mm would just turn into a 42mm... So the WA would > be the G1 > lens that you have to buy with the body. > > How does the G1 image quality compare to the G10? > > Perhaps Panasonic will eventually provide its own M adapter given > their > affiliation with Leica somehow utilizing the M8 codes...? > > To get from gear talk to photography, I have recently added some > M6 / Fuji > Sensia scans from a recent trip to Montreal to the LUG gallery. > All were > scanned in the cardboard mounts the slides came in from the Fuji > lab in KS. > Film was slightly underexposed, which I tried to correct in PSE. > All were > taken with the Zeiss ZM 2.8/35mm C-Biogon. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bigon07/Montreal/ > > Here is one from the same roll taken with an old 4/135mm Elmar her in > Burlington: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bigon07/BWF/ > 16Jan09_Elmar135_lighthouse_LR.jpg.html > > Comments welcome. > Jan > > ====================== > From: jhnichols at lighttube.net > ...So far as I know, the adapter would be Leica M (bayonet) mount > to G1. You > should be able to use any LTM lens with its normal Leica adapter > that fits > an M camera. However, take note that there is a factor of two > involved in > the angle of view. A 90mm LTM would give you the view of an 180mm > lens on > the G1. See this link: http://cameraquest.com/adp_micro_43.htm > Jim Nichols > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information