On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > I've been looking into ways of stuffing my Leica safely into my saddlebag > for the daily commute so I can use the camera at lunchtimes around the > fascinating area where I'm working. While talking to someone in the local > Leica pushers yesterday I had the idea of using the minute screwmount 35/3.5 > Elmar, which lies almost flush against the camera body. > > This is the one I tried - it was made in 1935 according to the serial > number: > < http://www.theclassiccamera.com/product_details_2560.htm> > > Here's one of the sample pictures I took. This is the whole frame: > < http://www.web-options.com/Elmar-1f.jpg> > > Here's a crop from the same sample shot: > < http://www.web-options.com/Elmar-1.jpg> > > That's a 75-year-old lens on a 4-ish-year-old digital body. Very tempting. I > know of 3 others of this type that are available at the moment, so I'm going > to have a look at them during the week.
Impressive, especially that crop. Looks like that could be a fun lens. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
