David, The last Hornby Island type closet that I saw converted, had the walls covered with shiny aluminium and gold coloured foil. It also had a bank of Gro-Lamps in the ceiling. I assumed that it was for a tanning booth. Jerry David Young wrote: > On 19/09/2005 at 10:44 PM Philippe Amard wrote: > > >You definitely must tell us more about that weird Leicanon thing indeed > >- e.g. how do you set aperture? my leitz glass is of the "automatic > >type" and i can't figure out how i might possibly stop up or down and > >get something out of it just like this. Puzzles me to the extent i'm > >considered the purchase of a full Canon equipment ... > > Philippe, the operation of the LeiCanon is very simple... > > Put the adapter of your choice into the Canon's lens mount and mount your= > Leica lens. It doesn't matter if it has 1,2,3 or no cams. They all work= > the same. > > Adjust your f-stop as usual... the only difference is that on a Canon body,= > the lens is in 'manual' mode, so as you choose a smaller f-stop, the lens= > will close down and the view finder darken. > > In actual use, this is not as bad as it sounds, for the finder is= > acceptably bright to around f8. I still find the finder OK to use/focus= > with the f6.8 Telyt and a 2x converter with the Telyt set to f8 - so= > that's really f16. That is, however, about the limit. > > Set the Canon to Av (aperture priority) and the camera will select the= > appropriate shutter speed for whatever f-stop you're using. Same as the= > "A" mode on the R8 & 9. > > > your last snaps were juts stunning . And as afore said, in a nut shell,= > they're very well balanced. > > Thank you, kind sir! :-) > > >By the way , will you show us the bathroom? :-) > > As you wish... though it is a very unsual one! It can be found at > > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/Bathroom.htm (Peek now, if you wish, for the= > page will be taken down, in about 24 hours.) > > Cheers! > > David. > > David Young, > Logan Lake, BC > CANADA. > > Personal Web-site at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt > Leica Reflex Forum web-page: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm > Archives are at: > www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/