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Great camera: i own both the F2A and the F2AS. Wondeful performers.

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According to Erwin Puts, yes (more or less).

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See also www.butkus.org.

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Absolutely no, dear friend. The film and digital capture don't are enemy but cousin...

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Hi, dear friends.

I own a gorgeous Summicron 50 mm f/ 2 Dual Range. Can i mount this lens,

without his goggles, on my Leica M5? In other words, the rear bayonet of my

Summicron Dual Range is compatible with the particular metering system of my

Leica M5?

Thanks in advance.

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The lenses for the Minolta A/Sony Alpha mount don't have the aperture ring, therefore don't allow the stop down metering whit the 4/3 cameras.

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Are real Leica optical projects? I hope.

Are real budget bargains? According to Leica standard.

How work these indubitable interesting lenses? I hope well, but i'm waiting for the Erwin tests.

Anyhow, is a very good new.

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Few months ago, i have purchased for 50 Euros (around 35 bucks) a CZJ Flektogon 35 mm f/ 2,8 MC in M42 thread mount, in mint conditions. I have shoot a Sensia II roll, with this lens, on my Bessaflex TM, at the historical palaces and churchs in Lecce (Italy). The results was very stunning, beyond every expectation, in sharpness, contrast and colour rendition. Ciao.

Congratulations, dear friend. Have fun!

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The Carl Zeiss was born in Jena, eastern Germany, in twenty years of the XX century, by merge of a series of pre existing factories (IKA, Goertz, Contessa Nettel and many others). After the III Reich fall, in 28 June 1945, few hundreds of Carl Zeiss Jena techinicians, engineers and specialized workings, plus their families, escaped from the soviet controlled zone towards the american controlled zone. They estabilished the western Carl Zeiss in Oberchocken, near Stuttgart, while the technicians and engineers who remained in Jena continued to work in the Carl Zeiss Jena, in the same pre war factories. The two parent firms was both existing since 1961, when a court of justice recognized the right to use the Carl Zeiss trade mark only at the Carl Zeiss Stuttgart. From 1961 to late '90 the Carl Zeiss Jena lenses was named CZJ or Aus Jena for the western markets.

The lenses made in Carl Zeiss Jena from 1945 to the end of the production (late '90) are true pre war Carl Zeiss optical projects. Not too modern and perfomer as the western Zeiss lenses, but very good also.

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Issues? What you want tell really? I don't understood.

I only can tell that my Nikon F100, the Nikkor AF D 28-105 mm f/ 3,5-4,5 and the SB28 (all acqired in 2000) work perfectly in every conditions.

The last 9 June i have shooted with F100, 28/105 and SB28 with Sto-Fen Omnibounce, 6 rolls at the concert of the italian "Deeper Band" (one of the most famous Deep Purple cover band in the world) with Jan Paice as special guest: all the bargain have worked very fine.

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"Made under license from VEB Pentacon" is written on the lens barrel. In the last life period of the VEB Pentacon, immediately after the Berlin wall fall, the same VEB Pentacon was made under license some lenses from Cosina or Sigma brands, with some of the most widespread bayonet lens attachments (Canon FD, Olympus OM, Nikon AI, Minolta MD, Pentax K eccetera) but the true CZJ lenses remained those realized in M42 thread mount (Flektogons, Pancolars, Tessars, Sonnars).

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Hi, dear friends. Are available the TEWE external finders in the new market or are available only in the used market? Thanks for the answers.

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The signe of the times. The political system protect us against the terroristic attacks or the political system self protect against the indipendent, boring and bother film makers and street photographers?

Freedom or safety? A true million dollars question...

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With all the screwed shutter release, you can use one of the billion standard cable realease with the universal Compur attachment.

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All.

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Hi, Cliff. With The Nikon F100 the standard focusing screen is the Brite View III B type. As alternative, there is only the Brite View III E type, with horizontal and vertical grid lines (very useful for architectural shots and/or for faciliting the third rule comnposition.

The K3 focusing screen of the Nikon FM3A is absolutely non adactable to the Nikon F100. If you want the split image rangefinder, see the Beattie Intenscreen catalogue. For the Nikon F100 there are available four different focusing screen types.

MODEL 82172: simple ground glass Fresnel with an horizontal big split image rangefinder. MODEL 82173: same to the Model 82172 with plus verical and horizontal grid lines. MODEL 82174: simple ground glass Fresnel with an 45 degree oblique big split image rangefinder.MODEL 82175: same to the Model 82174 with plus verical and horizontal grid lines. These models of the Beattie optional focusing screen are famouse for their enormous more brightness, than the Nikon models. See the Beattie web site for more info.

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Great shots, dear friends.

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Thanks to all, particularly to Jim. I hope that Sony will present a Full Frame DSLR in the next future.

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I hands up, dear Luis!

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Hi, Kerry, best wishes for you purchase. In contrary, i tell "never sensor cameras"! I'm joking... I follow the development both of the digital DSLRs and rangefinders, but i still use the film cameras and will continue for many years, because i have more feeling with the film technology. I find the digital photography too cold for my taste.

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Hi, Alan: your style and your photos are absolutely great.

A greeting from far Italy.

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Hi, dear friend. I own by many years the last version of the Leica M2 (my model was builted in 1962). Effectively, the Leica M2 was released as economical version of the Leica M3: particularly, the Leica M2 have an external frame counter, coaxial to the shutter release/winding lever. The frame counter is manual zero setting, also. Nevertheless, the Leica M2 was choosed by many professional photojounalists and street photographers, because the frameline in the finder cover the 35, 50 and 90 mm, the most used focal lenght in the reportage photography. The finder is very clear and contrasty, in pure Leica M style and the build quality is same to the Leica M3.

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www.mir.com - www.canonfd.com - www.wildpicture.com. The first is more complete, with a true exhaustive survey on FL and FD lens ranges. The other two are dedicated only to the FD system (www.canonfd.com is better).

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I also own the Summicron 35 mm f/ 2,8 with goggles for M3, that i mount on my Leica M2 and Leica MP. Also i find that the Summaron is a great lens. I suggest you: don't alter the original Leitz project. The risks are high and the lens lose in value.

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