[Leica] two questions for the LUGger expertise

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

slobodan,
yes i knew that and should have stipulated the summaron 35/2.8, from which
the eyes cannot, apparently, be successfully removed.
vince

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:47 AM, slobodan Dimitrov
<s.dimitrov at charter.net>wrote:

> The early 35mm f3.5  Summaron-M had user removable bug-eyes.
> S.d.
>
> On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Vince Passaro wrote:
>
> > 1. A simple question: can the 'eyes' be easily taken off and put on the
> 50
> > Summicron DR or is it like the 35 Summacron where you can't take it off
> or
> > you'll wreck the lens' focusing capacity? Which is to say can't you take
> it
> > off to use on, say, a G1, or a Bessa 2A, and put it back when you get the
> > shiny M3 or M4 of your dreams?
> >
> > 2. A less simple question: the ongoing thread about Leica lenses on the
> GF1
> > began with some commentary that included language that depicted using the
> > 50/1.4 on the GF1 as having a "100/1.4" lens on the camera. I see this
> all
> > the time, the equation of the half crop with a lens twice as long. But
> isn't
> > what one has really a 50mm image with a 25% crop off all four sides? And
> a
> > slightly narrower (more tele) angle of view? Please correct me in however
> > I've gotten this wrong.  But I'm pretty sure that having a half-sized
> sensor
> > is not the same as putting a 2x converter on a full frame. It doesn't
> yield
> > the same image at all. Why do people say this?
> >
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