Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/16

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Subject: [Leica] Konica Hexar RF
From: harrison at mcclary.net (Harrison McClary)
Date: Thu Nov 16 19:02:57 2006
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Leonard Taupier wrote:
> I just saw one of these at my dealers. It looks new in a velvet 
> covered box sitting in satin covered cutouts. It comes with a Hexar 
> 50mm f2 lens. The manuals and warranty cards are still sealed. The 
> only thing I know about this camera is it takes M lenses and has a 
> built-in motor drive. No film advance lever. How desirable is this 
> camera and what are its drawbacks?
>
> Len 

Len,

I used to have one.  It was a nice camera, handled pretty well, felt 
good int he hands, viewfinder was plenty bringht.  It did have to me one 
major problem...the lens release button stuck out on the front of the 
camera and had a light spring tension behind it.  It was very easy to 
accidentally depress it and have your lens come un-mounted...happened to 
my 28 latest elmarit and I had to send the lens to DAG to get fixed.    
Mayvbe they corrected this on later versions.

The lenses all seemed to work just fine the Konica 50 on my Ms and my M 
lenses on the Konica.  I kept the 50 f2 Konica and still shoot with it.  
Is a very nice lens, IMHO.  I sold the Hexar and bought first an M5 that 
had a separation issue in the mirror so I sent it back and got an M6ttl.

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