Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Hexar RF/M7
From: "Lee, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Lee@hrcc.on.ca>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 19:05:31 -0400

DT wrote:

With a finder magnification of 0.6 (same as the Leica CL) unless this camera

has an initial baselength of at least 83mm or some newfangled form of 
electronic focusing device, users of the fast or longer lenses aren't going 
to be overwhelmingly won over from the M6.  Judging by the lengths and
speeds 
of the Japanese lenses so far, this camera seems more like the Contax G
(with 
its focus limitations) than the M6.

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Nothing wrong with being like a Contax G. In fact, a manual focus G sounds
pretty good.  One that takes Leica glass and will come in new at $1000
sounds even better.  Not every Leica user has to be of the "big aperture,
high magnification, Noctilux, Summilux glass school".  Some pretty fine
beautiful pcitures have been taken with the 50f3.5 and that short
magnification CL camera.  

Jonathan Lee