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From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:57:04 -0500
I agree that the low magnification should make it relatively easy to 
design something with little impact on optical quality.  But, since I've 
never heard anything good about these adapters I have to think that the 
current implementations leave something to be desired.

Chuck Norcutt

Tim Hughes wrote:

> I totally agree with Chuck here. 
> 
> However just for completeness, pop-photo did do a test of some of these low 
> power adapters meant
> for correcting flange mount differences and found the loss of quality 
> surprisingly little (on film
> cameras). The particular test I remember was for a M42 mount with a slightly 
> smaller change in
> F.L., but likely not too different. Their comment was that the adapter lens 
> was essentially so
> thin that apart from the extra reflecting surfaces, it had little effect on 
> quality.  



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