Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry if this wasn't clear. All the lenses I've mentioned are for Leica rangefinders. The Avenon, Konica and Ricoh are Leica screw-mount (L-mount). The Sigma R&D guy said that if they were going to make lenses for Leica rangefinders, they wouldn't make L/screw-mount lenses, they would make M/bayonet-mount lenses. The issue was screw-mount vs. bayonet-mount for Leica rangefinders. PB On Thu, 04 Sep 1997 21:01:26 -0500, Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> wrote: >And if Sigma made Leica mount lenses (in the SLR world Leica is R, not = L - >that's Canon) nobody in their right minds would buy them. You don't go = to a >fine restaurant to eat hot dogs. :-) > >--------------------- >Eric Welch >Grants Pass, OR > >Exaggeration is not all it's cracked up to be. Paul C. Brodek Kobe, Japan pcb@iac.co.jp