Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:15 AM 9/22/99 -0400, Federico Agostini wrote: >A few months ago a French magazine rumored on a possible Konica/Leica >join venture with the release of a new Hexar with Leica-mount >interchangeable lenses. A sort of M7 in a way! I was in Japan a few >weeks ago but nobody there seemed to know anything about that. Thanks >for any information you can provide. The Leica/Konica rep. here says (and take it with a grain of salt) that this fall Konica is going to introduce a new rangefinder M camera, with three lenses. 35, 50, and 90mm. He said it would be auto exposure. Not much else, but I did hear a report somewhere, maybe on the LUG here, where someone saw it. Time will tell. And it's not a joint project with Leica. In spite of the fact he works for both. He says Leica has been pumping him for details on the camera, but he only tells them what he tells the general public. He can't bite one of the hands that feeds him to help the other. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Men say they know many things; but lo! they have taken wings