Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/24

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Subject: [Leica] Leica T
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:13:05 +0000
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>From dpreview:

'Stefan Daniel told us that Leica created a new mount for several reasons. 
The main reasons are that existing lenses are manual focus and the diameter 
of said lenses is too small for APS-C.'

Does not make sense to me ;-)

john

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Jim Laurel

That's a good point, John.


On Apr 24, 2014, at 3:04 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:

> The camera would have to be deeper to take an M mount natively, so to keep 
> it thin why not a different mount?
> 
> john



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