Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/19

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Subject: [Leica] Re: FS: RF Coupled SLR lens to Leica M Adapters
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Fri Nov 19 15:02:08 2004
References: <20041119180622.62254.qmail@web50503.mail.yahoo.com>

I too cannot think of a personal use for it but it is pretty damn 
clever!

John Collier

On Nov 19, 2004, at 11:06 AM, Emanuel Lowi wrote:

> B. D. Colen wrote:
>>
>>> Am I the only one amused by people searching for
>> various ways to mount
>>> non-Leica SLR lenses on their Leica Ms, when the
>> watchword for this list
>>> has always been "It's the glass, stupid!" followed
>> closely by "a body is
>>> just a box on which to mount Leica glass."
>>
>
> I have just uncorked a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau
> and am raising a purple toast to you, B.D., on this
> glorious day when we once again (after all too long)
> find ourselves in utter agreement. Here's to looking
> at  you, B.D.!
>
> Bolting non-Leica SLR lenses onto an M strikes me as
> even loonier than Solms reviving the rewind knob on
> the new MP.
>
> But I do not begrudge Mr. Gandy earning a livelihood
> via peddling to the soft-minded those products of some
> adapter-mad netherworld.


Replies: Reply from msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small <) ([Leica] Re: FS: RF Coupled SLR lens to Leica M Adapters)
In reply to: Message from lowiemanuel at yahoo.ca (Emanuel Lowi) ([Leica] Re: FS: RF Coupled SLR lens to Leica M Adapters)