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Even More M8 Fun [POST YER PIX!]
- Thread starter Maggie O
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helenhill
Senior Member
robsteve
Subscriber
About a week ago we had some more snow and decided to take the kids sledding. I took the M8 and it made out fine even though it got sprayed with snow a few times. I thought this might happen, so had a microfibre cloth in my pocket to wipe off the snow. I used the 50mm Summicron and tried to follow focus for the shots below.
In this sequence, my wife is racing my two sons. The first shot is from a later race, but fit better in this sequence.
In this sequence, my wife is racing my two sons. The first shot is from a later race, but fit better in this sequence.
jonoslack
Active member
Lots of fun!
It looks like your wife spent a lot of time on her back!
jaapv
Subscriber Member
Running Terrapin
I can tell you guys and gals one thing: If I can take an obsolete and crazy lens, a fortyfive year old Rube Goldberg contraption, stuff it onto a camera that was never meant for the purpose, and get consistent and amazing (imo) results like these,and besides that many more by many others by more conventional means in this thread, I can advise the whole community of Leica bashers on the Internet where they can stuff their collective heads.....
I can tell you guys and gals one thing: If I can take an obsolete and crazy lens, a fortyfive year old Rube Goldberg contraption, stuff it onto a camera that was never meant for the purpose, and get consistent and amazing (imo) results like these,and besides that many more by many others by more conventional means in this thread, I can advise the whole community of Leica bashers on the Internet where they can stuff their collective heads.....
Terry
New member
But she was handicapped with the kids getting the proper sleds!
doug
Well-known member
The Novoflex has a unique focussing method: by squeezing the handgrip (the one closer to the camera) the lens head is moved back toward infinity focus. Close focus is by relaxing the grip. Jaap's version of the focussing mount also has a built-in variable extension tube controlled (I think) by the dial on top above the focussing grip.
I have the same lens head with an older version of the squeeze grip which has a bellows instead of the variable extension tube. It's very handy for extreme close-up photos. Here are a couple of my photos made with the Novoflex (on the R8/DMR):
IMHO there's no more responsive manual-focus wildlife lens than the Novoflex. The f/6.8 Telyts come close and are much lighter and less bulky.
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jaapv
Subscriber Member
(Nice action shot, Maggie
)Too late, my post one up won't edit any more...
There is of course a lot of DNA shared between the Novoflex lenses and the Telyts.Not just the glass, which according to Jonathan Eastland was made by Leica. The Telyts were also available in Novfoflex grips, this Pigriff C I use is supposed to be able to take a Telyt 560 head, etc...The main difference between the Telyt 400/6.8 and the Noflexar-T 400/5.6 is the fact that the Telyt is aperture reduced to correct field curvature and the Noflexar had a lens element added for the same reason to make it a triplet - and about 700 grams heavier.
This gives the Noflexar two advantages - a half-stop more viewfinder brightness and a larger circle of maximum sharpness/resolution. On the Telyt it extends 9 mm, on the Noflexar 12 mm, making it sharp nearly into the corners on 1.3x crop.