[LRflex] Re: Not an R camera - Leica CL
- From: Richard Ward <ilovaussiesheps@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 09:53:53 -0700 (PDT)
Steve & David,
Thanks for the quote from Stephen Gandy's CameraQuest site and for the comments
regarding what it said. As another poster stated "asking the group re: CL
lenses on M bodies would be a great idea" and he was quite right. I intended to
broach the topic on the list myself, but wanted to wait until I actually was
capable of making the purchases, which might not be for awhile. To me, it's a
respect thing to not fluff the list with hypotheticals or what abouts on things
I either can't buy or never will be able to buy. Strikes me as inquiries this
list, which demonstrates a joyous dirth of fanboys, boosters, or 'net trolls,
wouldn't enjoy very much and just serve to diminish the overall value of my
posts in general. Besides- the silent response to my badly cropped 1st baseball
post was positively deafening - gotta rebuild some cred here! :-)
Richard
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From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour@xxxxxxxxx>
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, May 4, 2010 12:18:56 PM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Not an R camera - Leica CL
On May 4, 2010, at 9:10 AM, David Scollard wrote:
> Here's what Stephen Gandy says:
>
> Incompatible CL Lenses??? When the CL was new, Leica made it clear the CL's
> 40/2 Summicron and 90/4 Elmar (or the 40/2 and 90/4 Rokkors for the Japanese
> market) may not focus correctly on M cameras. The reason given was the
> different shape of the CL lenses' focusing cam. As time went on, users
> became more and more suspicious that this incompatibility claim may have
> been marketing hype so the inexpensive CL lenses would not decrease sales of
> the more expensive M lenses. Perhaps some CL lenses really don't focus
> accurately with some M bodies, but I have yet to see it. This issue is a
> matter of hot dispute, depending a lot upon how much you trust father Leitz.
> The Voigtlander 50/2 Heliar is the only collapsible 50 I know of that can be
> safely collapsed into the CL.
>
> The whole article is available on CameraQuest.
>
> I remember reading about the time the CL and CLE first came out that
> Leica-badge lenses were not compatible, but the Minolta lenses were.
I agree with David....take some time to consider these issues with a review of
Steve Gandy's Cameraquest web site info, that I believe will truly pay off...
Steve
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