Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/26

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Buys Sinar
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:38:04 -0600
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On Nov 26, 2013, at 1:25 PM, John McMaster wrote:

> That is what it was, an adapter that fitted where the ground glass would 
> be with sheet film...
> 
> john
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> On Nov 26, 2013, at 12:31 PM, John McMaster wrote:
>> 
>>> On one of the forums recently I saw something about an adapter to allow
>> the S2/S fit to the back of a Sinar, with shorter focal length lenses and 
>> bag
>> bellows that would allow it to slot in to pack shot or studio still life 
>> shots....
>> 
>> a very weak solution to view camera work as the mirror box gets in the way
>> on every conceivable level.
>> 
>> Any precision view camera/technical camera solution requires a back with
>> nothing but a bag/bellows between it and the lens

Yes John. But in the case of mounting an S/S2 body onto a view camera
the mirror box makes the distance, rise, fall, shift, tilt, swing all 
extremely limited;
when compared to mounting simply a digital back on the same camera.

I have mounted my R8/DMR, M8/Visoflex and Canon 5D on my Cambo Ultima.
It provides great fun - interesting new possibilities - though extreme 
limitations
due to the mirror box dimensions;
which disappear when simply mounting a digital back.

<http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=225>

The M (240) with live view and/or EVF would actually give more movements
than the S/S2



Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist



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