panya w.

<p>It's a fantastic lens. Even if I don't own Nikon body any longer, I like it so much, I have to adapt it to use on Sony A-900. Here's some pictures from 180ED on Sony A900.<br>

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3300/3520558194_6bb1018629_b.jpg" alt="" width="683" height="1024" /><br>

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3330/3519744687_f9db07bf12_b.jpg" alt="" width="683" height="1024" /></p>

<p>I would like to contribute some.<br>

<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2666/3780202264_9fd3d0b7d2_o.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="750" /><br>

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3533/3779521595_42f9cabb9d_o.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="750" /><br>

<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2670/3720045198_3bf0bfd1cc.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="500" /></p>

<p>a pink dot.<br>

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3607/3387190872_da5d5b560b.jpg" alt="" width="333" height="500" /></p>

<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3117/3386379733_8ea962da5e.jpg" alt="" width="333" height="500" /></p>

I'm sorry, I must have missed all the threads. All these days I only saw M8,

M8 and M8, what happen to Huw's M2aD project? Is the last update in April?

Thanks!

For those who may be interested. I have just walked around used

camera places in Nagoya Japan, Sakae area, yesterday. Saw a few

Avenon/Kobalux 21/2.8 ~59000yen, both black and silver.

Top Camera also has used 35/2 UC Hexanon available 78000yen. and I

think a 50/2.4 collapsible, I didn't pay attention on it price though.

Congrat!, Doug. That's a splendid looking bird. It's look so real I feel it wants to fly out of my monitor screen.

Trevor, here are my contribution in landscape catagory

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1914629

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1914627

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1914626

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1914631

I think the hot spot is due to combination of lens + sensor. My Rebel XT doesn't seem to have problem with 17-40L. Here is an example.<div></div>

Not sure if this has been in the News.

 

Anyone visiting Seoul Korea right now (I think till July 17) can

enjoy exhibition of works from Henri Cartier Bresson and Sebastiao

Salgado in the same city.

- HCB is at Seoul Art Center.

- Salgado is at Korea Press Center.

 

Just FYI.

Hi Douglas, Yes the replacement mount has the detents for the ball bearing for the aperture click-stop.

You live in Sacramento valley, right? If you happen to come down to the SF Bayarea, I can show it to you if I am not out of town.

Attached picture show the rendering from my CAD screen. The design is not refined, but it's a proof of concept that it can be done. (can focus from near to infinity with no problem.)<div></div>

You can change the mount of the Leica R Lenses to a Nikon F mount. I have designed a mount and successfully did the change. The mount change will require you to unscrew the 6 screws holding the lens mount and replace with a new one that is Nikon F mount. You can change it back by doing the same, just don't throw away the things you removed.

 

see <li><a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/1383948">http://www.photo.net/photo/1383948</a></li>

 

I tried to make an engineering drawing of this mount, but it is incomplete at the moment. You also need a friend who might have a CNC machine, otherwise, it will get expensive to hire someone to just make one.

Rangefinder should do just fine with landscape photography. See some of them in my photo folder:<br>

http://www.photo.net/photo/2903490<br>

http://www.photo.net/photo/2903488<br>

http://www.photo.net/photo/1914629<br>

http://www.photo.net/photo/1914626<br>

http://www.photo.net/photo/1911550<br>

http://www.photo.net/photo/2903484

Need your input on comparison of both lenses. I heard 24-85 is

pretty sharp thru out, but has high distortion. How is 28-200

compare to it resolution wise? I heard the 28-200G ED has low

distortion, especially when use on a D-SLR body. Thanks.

fallen leaf<div></div>

My guess would be mash land area west of Dumbarton Bridge and before University Ave in East Palo Alto?

As you know, the common paper size (e.g. 8x10 or 11x14) as well as

the regular frame size has different aspect ratio than the picture

you compose in the finder (2x3). I have a dilemma that I don't want

to pay extra money for the special size matt and/or frame for

pictures that I composed for the 24x36mm film.

I would like to hear your advices on how you take this into

consideration when you compose the picture that you are taken. Also

how do you decide what to crop out to fit the paper size. I was

thinking whether I should, for example, use the vertical bar of the

75mm frameline as the horizontal edge of my picture when I took it

with a 50mm lens. Please advice, thanks.

Please critique some of recent photos taken with Leica.

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1911555

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1911557

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1914690

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1914699

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/1914703

 

Also check out the B&W folder.

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=352984

 

Thanks.

No, I didn't alter the len mount ring on the Leica R lens. I just loosen the 6 screws that hold it and replace the ring with the ring mount I designed. The Nikon F mount to Leica R lens was CNC machined from a solid brass, and chrome plated for the final product (the prototype does not have a chrome plated). If I need to sell my R lens, then I just put the original R mount back. So my Nikon can use both Nikon lens and Leica R lens and my Leica R still use the Leica R lens. Actually I sold all my Leica R body already. The only thing I needed is a screw driver. The metering is through stop down metering as you probably know, because the AI level on the Nikon rotate in reverse direction from a Leica R aperture.

Here is the design.

Andrew,

Please don't prejudge other based on your experience. If you read carefully what I had written, I said that I designed a mount change that had preserve both infinity and close focus, not an adaptor.

 

Josh,

I had looked into that and the cost is prohibitive if I want to make it elegantly, e.g. no wires/chip hanging out of the lens.

I had successfully designed a mount change on Leica R lens into Nikon mount which preserve both infinity and close focus. You can see picture of Summicron on Nikon FM <a href="http://www.photo.net/photo/1383948"> here.</a> I was utilizing my mechanical engineering skill to burn some $$$. :) For use with new Nikon D-SLR, it is a bit tricky as it does not have the chip to do metering.

Does anyone know the different between SD8 and SD8A battery pack?

 

Thanks!

I don't think you can do it with M lenses. I only have success with R lenses though. See

http://www.photo.net/photo/1383948

Been there. Done that w/ Summicron 50/2.