Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/16

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Subject: RE: [Leica] weird new Minolta lens
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 14:52:45 -0400

It does look neat...Now, if we could only tell what the hell it is! Any
Japanese readers out there....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Joe
> Berenbaum
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 3:19 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] weird new Minolta lens
>
>
> At 12:18 16/09/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >Might be off topic, but check out the picture on
> >http://www.minolta.co.jp/japan/press98/optical/grokkor28f35_j.html
>
> It's silver, it looks like metal, and they are calling it a Rokkor. They
> haven't used that name for anything autofocus as far as I can recall so it
> could be a nice, small, metal barreled manual focus lens- and I get the
> feeling it isn't for a single lens reflex!
>
> Joe Berenbaum
>