Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: 500mm Reflex blues
From: Kent Jon Peters <KPETERS@huntel.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 08:23:24 -0700

Jim Brick wrote:
> 
> Probably because Leica/Leitz didn't make it.
> 
> It's a Minolta lens.
> 
> Jim
> 
> At 11:08 PM 6/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>      Why the heck didn't Leica make their 500mm reflex focus
>      nearer than 4 metres?  I had no idea that this was the case
>      until I just bought one and was disappointed to find it
>      out.  I have an 'brand x" 500 mm reflex that I have used for
>      several years which focusses to 2.5 metres and provides some
>      "macro" coverage.  I can't see spending several hundred
>      dollars more for less range of focus.  I'm sending it back!
>      Kent
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Yeah, I got that figured out, it's just that if you're spending top
dollar for a MR lens, you'd think it would cover at least the focussing
range of the competition!  Very disappointing to me at least.  Oh,
well.... perhaps the 560 for tele and the bellows for macro... Kent