Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/18/00 12:28:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dante@umich.edu writes: << The funny thing about it was the discouragement of competition - Canon made a lot of LTM lenses that were very competitive with the contemporaneous Leitz lenses. There may have been a positive incentive to prevent people from easily or cheaply mounting 35/2 Canons or 50/1.2 Canons. >> Actually, the point at which I was driving had more to do with the fact that Leitz was aiming to kill off the competition in LTM bodies. Under that line of reasoning, the lenses would follow the bodies into extinction, as they did. Konica's use of the M mount tends to confirm that the plan was successful. I suppose the corollary question for Konica is why Konica did not choose to build LTM lenses rather than to copy the M mount. The Cosinas are clearly not brand new designs involving R&D of the nature or extent of the Konica effort. Joe Sobel