Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/08

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Subject: re: [Leica] Cosina/Voigtlander Bessa-R
From: Larry Kopitnik <kopitnil@marketingcomm.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 20:52:36 -0600

>>>>>>>>>>
Rangefinder magnification 0.7x, rangefinder base about 30mm.  Effective
base 21mm (arrrgh!)
<<<<<<<<<<

Very interesting. This makes the effective base length slightly greater
than the effective base length of the Leica/Minolta CL (based on CL specs
on Stephen Gandy's excellent Cameraquest site). Perhaps the Bessa-R will
prove to be to the M6 what the CL was to the M system a quarter century ago.

Larry