Re: Quietest Pentax

[Paul Stenquist]

You're right. The longest lens that's practical on a Leica rangefinder 
is a 135. You can use  longer lenses with a Visoflex housing, which 
mimics an SLR, but it's an unwieldy beast of a thing. The Leica is 
happiest with wide to normal lenses, 35x and 50s. I have a Summicron 
Collapsible f2. It's a wonderful little lens with what I would describe 
as 1950s color and contrast. Muted, in other words. Yet it's very 
sharp. In BW that moderate contrast, moderate saturation look 
translates to very nice mid grey rendition. Lots of fun.

On Mar 25, 2005, at 9:09 AM, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
It also takes shortish FL lenses,
Err, I was meaning to ask rather than assert, but I am sure someone
will correct me here :-)
Kostas