Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/02

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica R vs. Contax SLR lenses
From: Jim Laurel <jplaurel@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 19:40:55 -0700

Hopefully, any new AF lenses will also be usable on the older bodies in
manual focus mode.

- --Jim Laurel

- -----Original Message-----
From: Eric Welch [mailto:ewelch@ponyexpress.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 6:16 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica R vs. Contax SLR lenses


At 09:21 PM 9/2/99 +0200, you wrote:
>If Leica were to come out (one day) with an AF body that would require
>new R lenses to work on it, they would commit a kind of commercial
>suicide.

IF Leica does, and according to the local Leica rep. it's coming in less 
than two years, it will be able to use the old lenses in focus 
confirmation. Leica's not always at the forefront of technological 
innovation, but they are pretty savvy on what makes sense. The R8 is such a 
wonderful camera, in spite of a few things, that I could see it staying 
pretty much the same with AF circuits added. I'd buy it.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

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