Biggles
My cup runneth amok.
It sure does!
I shot four rolls of street with that lash-up a couple of weeks ago, with the frame selector lever electrical-taped over to the 35mm setting. At first I was quite conscious that I might be well-served to compose tight inside the 35mm frame, but I kept forgetting about it at the end, and the bulk of the last three rolls were shot in my typical clueless manner.
Only one frame out of 140 looks like maybe I composed too loose, and that one may have been some other kind of operator error on my part. Can't remember. The bottom line is, my four rolls suggest that one can slap a 40mm M-mount lens on these bodies, tape the preview lever down to 35mm, and more or less shoot with impunity.
Bonus points: The combination carries in the hand like a slightly bigger, slightly heavier CL. The ZM's not a very heavy camera, for its envelope dimensions. That tiny Leitz 40 with its rubber hood doesn't add much. Made for a tolerably light, compact street rig the three days I stomped around with it in my hand, on a wrist strap.
Some cropped and trimmed pictures from those rolls, because this is, after all, a photography forum:
I shot four rolls of street with that lash-up a couple of weeks ago, with the frame selector lever electrical-taped over to the 35mm setting. At first I was quite conscious that I might be well-served to compose tight inside the 35mm frame, but I kept forgetting about it at the end, and the bulk of the last three rolls were shot in my typical clueless manner.
Only one frame out of 140 looks like maybe I composed too loose, and that one may have been some other kind of operator error on my part. Can't remember. The bottom line is, my four rolls suggest that one can slap a 40mm M-mount lens on these bodies, tape the preview lever down to 35mm, and more or less shoot with impunity.
Bonus points: The combination carries in the hand like a slightly bigger, slightly heavier CL. The ZM's not a very heavy camera, for its envelope dimensions. That tiny Leitz 40 with its rubber hood doesn't add much. Made for a tolerably light, compact street rig the three days I stomped around with it in my hand, on a wrist strap.
Some cropped and trimmed pictures from those rolls, because this is, after all, a photography forum:
