Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 21/11/00 10:02 PM, apbbeijing at apbbeijing@yahoo.com wrote: > My favourite cameras right now are the > Hexar RF and the Xpan: the latter has a startlingly great set of lenses, > though slow. My dream would be an M mount Xpan: I suspect we might have had > one if Solms had been a little more adventurous and awake to the > possibilities. Leica didn't even have to be adventurous - from what I understand, Fuji took the XPan project to Leica who turned them down so they went to Hasselblad instead. Can you imagine having the resulting camera called 'Leica Wide'? [I have to confess: if the XPan was a Leica I would have bought one a long time ago....] Rgds, Joseph Joseph@yao.com