Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/11

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Latest RF Rumors
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:05:30 -0000

If Canon, Nikon, etc., are doing what they are reported to be doing re
rangefinder, and they are as smart as I hope they are, they will come up
with a way that Leica M mount lenses can be used on their new rangefinder
cameras...Now THAT would raise some very interesting possibilities.....


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Henning J.
Wulff
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 8:19 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Latest RF Rumors


At 8:32 PM -0500 2/9/00, Gaifana@aol.com wrote:
>(Nostalgia at 26)
>
>Big fun. But will the Nikon take the nifty old S lenses? Will the Canon
have
>that weird foil shutter and wonderful chrome? Or will it be polycarbonate?
>How will the CLE look in even more plastic? Will it key the right
framelines
>with a 50? I shudder to think. But it will be fun. Think of all the flame
>wars  that will start as first the Leica M vs Leica M clone fight starts -
>and then the screwmount clones vs the M clones, and then the M users
against
>all comers!
>
>I thought the whole point was optics, and I think I would rather have
>something that takes Leitz glass, or at least can be adapted to take the
>worthwhile SM lenses Leica does not make. Sure, Nikon lenses are good now,
>but the majority of their designs seems to ignore out-of-focus areas. They
>don't look like Sonnars like they did in the S era. It's great for
landscape,
>but with a few exceptions, Nikkors are hard and cold and precise lenses. I
>love them for everything - but faces.

Over the last number of years I've updated some lenses (Hologon-> Heliar,
21 Elmarit -> 21 ASPH, 35/1.4 -> 35/1.4 ASPH, 90/2 -> 90/2 APO ASPH) and I
have been very happy with each upgrade. True, the 15 revision hasn't been
in favour of a Leica lens, but there wasn't a huge range of choices. In any
case, at this time I can't see abandoning the ASPH Leica lenses for
anything. They are great, they are amazing. A reasonably priced Konica,
Nikon, Canon or whatever body with some useful new features migh find a
place next to my Leicas, but the glass I have is likely to stay, and that
includes the older Leica lenses I have.

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