Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]1. A simple question: can the 'eyes' be easily taken off and put on the 50 Summicron DR or is it like the 35 Summacron where you can't take it off or you'll wreck the lens' focusing capacity? Which is to say can't you take it off to use on, say, a G1, or a Bessa 2A, and put it back when you get the shiny M3 or M4 of your dreams? 2. A less simple question: the ongoing thread about Leica lenses on the GF1 began with some commentary that included language that depicted using the 50/1.4 on the GF1 as having a "100/1.4" lens on the camera. I see this all the time, the equation of the half crop with a lens twice as long. But isn't what one has really a 50mm image with a 25% crop off all four sides? And a slightly narrower (more tele) angle of view? Please correct me in however I've gotten this wrong. But I'm pretty sure that having a half-sized sensor is not the same as putting a 2x converter on a full frame. It doesn't yield the same image at all. Why do people say this?