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Subject: [OM] Re: Auxilliary Lenses for Oly Rangefinders
From: Earl R Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:58:18 -0500
Dan:

I got the SP primarily for the same reason as you... to have a high quality 
camera that I could use that would allow me to force myself to have only one 
lens and use it well.  So the tele and wide adapters are just afterthoughts/
musing, a convenience on days when I'm just out there sorta on a lark, not 
being terribly serious.  The close-up lenses, though, are another story.  The 
close focus on the SP is about 1 meter.  That just doesn't cut it in certain 
situations.  I have some 49mm closeup lenses that I haven't used in years.  
I'll see what sort of condition they're in and play around.  If I can get the 
framing right, a newer, higher quality set (these are el-cheapos from when I 
was living on a shoestring) may be in order.

Earl
On Thursday 11 March 2004 09:14, you wrote:
> Hi there Jim,
>
> Thanks for the extensive advice!
>
> I suspect that I won't do it unless a local soul has the IS adapters and
> wants to get access to an SP to try it out. I got my SP mostly so I could
> force myself to just take one camera on a day trip say. I wanted the
> quality of the lens to be high but the package smaller (that said the SP is
> about the size of an OM body).
>
> I think that Earl probably has it right when he suggested at that an
> overlay could be made to have better framing for the close up lens but I
> don't have one to try and well if I really wanted to I would just take the
> OM...
>
> Anyway thanks for your thoughts on the requirements needed to test the
> setup. The offer still stands if someone wants to get together and try out
> an IS adapter on an 35SP.
>
> Dan S.
>
> From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxx>
>
> > If you're going to try this, I think you will have problems with
> > the focus.
> > Fitting the tele (or wide) adapter lens onto an IS, the autofocus
> > correctsfor the difference in the focus with v/s without. The
> > rangefinder will not
> > be able to take this into account.
>
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