Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/01

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Subject: [Leica] Ricoh and the M mount
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:42:59 +0100
References: <AANLkTi=oRDkB9hgP1Hw0rzfg6GparKm=yGXii6TgoU5C@mail.gmail.com> <013401cbc2a0$06c6d140$145473c0$@earthlink.net> <AANLkTineLod424XJrXKZ1uUSfb7J0n541H3BKut+=MTx@mail.gmail.com>

Also not a word about focusing. Presumably it will not have a rangefinder, 
so focusing will be on the screen or EVF, in which case I fail to see the 
advantage over putting the M lens on a MFT camera with adapter.

Cheers,
Nathan

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On Feb 2, 2011, at 7:21 AM, Richard Man wrote:

> Not quite. M8 is 1.3 crop. The GR solution is 1.5x crop. More like a 
> smaller
> and higher resolution R-D1.
> 
> May be GR-D2 :-)
> 
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at 
> earthlink.net>wrote:
> 
>> This would make the Ricoh Camera a direct replacement for the M8......
>> 
>> At what, 1/10 the price?
>> 
>> Frank Filippone
>> Red735i at earthlink.net
>> 
>> 
>> One more option:
>> 
>> http://www.dpreview.com/news/1102/11020114ricohmmount.asp
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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In reply to: Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Ricoh and the M mount)
Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Ricoh and the M mount)
Message from richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Ricoh and the M mount)