Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There's a lot of people who have been shooting full frame digital for quite a long time with all kinds of wide angle glass on Canons and Kodaks and Nikons is it picky picky picky as to which lenses they can't use? I haven't heard all that much about stuff you can normally use on a SLR you can't on a DSLR. Other than stuff with mirror lock up of coarse, I'm thinking our worries about glass coming right up the the sensor are overblown. Mark William Rabiner > From: Leonard Taupier <len-001 at verizon.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:53:43 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: CV 15/4.5 in Nikon F Mount > > The 1.5X crop bodies would probably be OK but I'll bet full frame > would be a big problem. I'll bet this is the biggest challenge Leica > is having in making a full frame rangefinder. I would like to see > some photos using the CV 15mm on an F2 though. I think that except > for the circular fisheyes, the 2.1cm f4 Nikkor was the widest non- > retrofocus lens Nikon had. > > So I think Chris should get it. I'll even loan him a F2 if he doesn't > have one. > > Len > > > On Mar 30, 2009, at 12:32 PM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net wrote: > >> Leonard Taupier wrote: >> >>> You can't use any lens that extends into the camera body. The digital >>> cameras mirror up mode is not the same as the old film cameras. In >>> all the newer Nikons what happens in mirror up mode is 1st push of >>> the shutter button the mirror locks up. Second push of the shutter >>> the camera takes the photo and the mirror drops back to viewing >>> position. >> >> I'm also wondering if the digital Nikons would have angle-of-incidence >> problems with this lens. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> mail2web.com - Microsoft? Exchange solutions from a leading provider - >> http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information