Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, as Cosina doesn't offer a 90 YET, the 90mm framelines are a bit superfluous, but there's nothing to prevent you from mounting a 90 Elmar or Summicron on the beast. Other tidbits: - - Bessa-R body at Y680,000 - - Manually selected framelines for 50, 35/90, 75 - - No 135 framelines. The finder mag must be around .6 and the baseline looks a similar to a LTM IIIx. But as the rangefinder on a IIIf was 1.5x, the accuracy on the Bessa-R will obviously suffer. No 90 Summicron's on this baby. It reminds me of the CL's limitations. - - Two new Color Skopar lenses, a pancake 35/2.5 and a more normal 35/2.8. Strange that they released two lenses with such similar specs. They must had one of them already done for another purpose. I can't believe that they'd create a new lens design just to save a little length. The optical formulas are different, but both are non-aspheric and priced at Y350,000 and Y300,000 - - A M-type grip is offered Skip . At 1/19/00 06:13 PM +0100, you wrote: >Skip Williams wrote: > > > I was just trolling and I found the Bessa-R on Cosina's japanese web site > >The 90 mm frames are symbolic. (bottom right) ><http://www.cosina.co.jp/bessa-r/4.html> > >Lucien - ----------------------------------------------- Skip Williams Westfield, NJ skipwilliams@pobox.com - -----------------------------------------------