Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Others have already described the camera: the lenses are the 40mm Sonnar as used in the Rollei 35 (nice lens, very nice, but not quite as good as the Summicron-C IMO), the 50mm f1.8 Planar as used on Rollei's 35mm SLRs - that one won't worry Leica or even Cosina/Voigtlander too much, and the 80mm f2.8 Planar alledgedly derived from the TLR lens - which does sound a little more interesting. But the glass isn't actually new, it would appear, and doesn't appear to be the optical challenge to Leica I would've liked from my favourite camera maker. Nick - --- Austin Franklin <darkroom@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > This is purported to have an M lense mount: > > > > http://www.rollei.de/cct/files/rollei/data/Rollei35RF_e.pdf > > And...it's shown with a Sonnar 40mm lense. So, I am > curious what other > lenses Rollei will make in M mount! > > It doesn't say if it has DX coding or not, and the > metering is not up to > that of the M6TTL/M7 (1 to 19EV vs -2 to 20EV). The > Rollei does have a > faster shutter - up to 1/2000. > > Austin > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html