Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think you just made me see what will happen. The Konica M mount lenses will not have a focusing coupling to the Leica rangefinder. They will focus using autofocus sensors in the Hexar similiar to autofocus SLR. With a Leica lens mounted on the Hexar, you would focus it manually looking for the focus confirmation light in the viewfinder, perhaps with a set of left and right arrows telling you which way to move the lens. The Hexar lens will mount on a Leica M but will be useless except for zone focusing. In other words, don't hope to use any of the Hexar lenses on your M6 unless they are wide angles with lots of depth of field. These are just my educated guess, and we will have to wait to see what Konica has done. Regards, Robert At 02:37 PM 2/10/99 EST, you wrote: >They are mentioning autofocus Leica-M lenses bearing the Konica brand name. >What is this??? Another rumor??? How in heavens could they be Leica lenses? >Do you imagine the tork necessary to autofocus an helicoidal lens? We better >wait and see!! > >"En tout cas, nous sommes pratiquement certains qu'ils sont autofocus. " from >the article... >In a message dated 2/10/99 1:05:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, >dwpost@email.msn.com writes: > >> http://www.photim.com/INFOS/UneInfo.asp?N=56> > > > >