Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search];-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Doug Herr Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 6:55 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: R lenses on Canon bodies on 1/27/04 11:22 AM, George Lottermoser at imagist@imagist.cnc.net wrote: > B. D. Colen1/27/04 > >> a unit couldn't be attached to the bottom and back of an M that >> placed the sensor at the proper distance, or that one couldn't design >> a new body that used M lenses and was a rangefinder camera...This >> will probably never happen, but someone is missing a real bet if they >> don't do it, given the number of Leica glass fanatics out there, as >> well as the number of lenses waiting to be used.. ;-) > > > Hear, Hear, or is it > Here, Here, anyway > where are the Marty Forshers of today. > Remember the Polaroid back (er bottom) for the Nikon Fs? Wasn't that > Marty's? > IIRC the Forsher polaroid back for the F didn't work too well with lenses shorter than 200mm - the oblique ray thing, even w/o pixels. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html