Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/12

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Subject: [Leica] Interview re. Leica-Olympus-Panasonic menage
From: bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C)
Date: Sat Feb 12 06:28:11 2005

And yet the little Flash show at that website displays a diagram with
little arrows going everying showing how "Lens A" will fit on "Camera B"
and vice versa.

-dan c.

At 01:57 PM 12-02-05 +0100, Didier Ludwig wrote:
>Karen
>I have read that page too and was just simplifying when i said only the 
>sensor is standardized. The diameter of the mount is standardized, BUT NOT 
>the mount itself, though Sigma is offering some Olympus 4/3 mount lenses. 
>Proprietary mounts from other manufacturers are explicitely not excluded.
>Didier
>
>>Bzzz... The "The Four Thirds System  standardizes the diameter of the
>>lens mount, the size of the image  circle, the flange-focal distance,
>>and more." See: 
>><http://www.four-thirds.org/en/index_01.htm>http://www.four-thirds.org/en/
index_01.htm
>>Cheers,
>>Karen
>


Replies: Reply from r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor) ([Leica] Interview re. Leica-Olympus-Panasonic menage)
In reply to: Message from rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Interview re. Leica-Olympus-Panasonic menage)