[Leica] stuff

[Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>]

A few assorted ramblings culled from the weekend deliveries of 'The
Digest'...

Guido ridoli wrote:
> Leica Leica Leica
> the only 35mm camera that allows you to marry a 1958 lens (and what a
> lens!) with a new 1998 body
(someone else wrote:)
>Nikon allows this too (albeit with certain restrictions!)

Perhaps this should easily be re-written as:
> the only 35mm camera that allows you to marry a 1928 lens with a new 1998
body. 
70 years of compatibility ties in well with the release of the new pictures
of the Yasuhara LTM camera
http://plaza10.mbn.or.jp/~yasuhara/t981.html
This gives the price at an astonishingly low $410! Quite amazing, and for
those 1:1 viewfinder lovers, that's what it offers, the r/f base looks a
little short though.

Andrew (Moore)
The lens on the front of that camera seems to be the 50/1.8 serenar you were
describing. Serial numbers have never seemed to make much sense from Canon
compared to Leica but I'd suggest the lens would be perhaps as good as a
Summitar, better than a Summar and not as good as a Summicron. Value here in
Britain would probably be around 100 GBP.

Gerd,
The M6J route seems a little excessively priced for sorting out your
v/finder arrangement. I'd have thought that if M6 frames can be installed in
M4-Ps then it could most likely work in reverse too. E-mail Solms for the
definitive answer, or call your favourite local mechanic.

Leica have installed their latest chief, check out:
http://www.leica-camera.com/untern/ir/pdf/pm_cohn_e.pdf
sadly it's not the guy we met at Photokina, Burkard Keisel, but someone from
a furniture business!! Let's hope he doesnt advocate tongue and groove
joints and a return to mahogany field cameras...

Everyone,
Apologies for the strange messages emminating from my server here at work.
We're in the process of changing people over from one e-mail system to
another and the server doesn't update the internal addresses as often as it
could, hence the strange delivery reports, I'm unsubscribing for a couple of
days. Hopefully things will be normal again when I re-list towards the end
of the week.
My e-mail address is still as before,
jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk

I'm off to the west coast of Ireland for a couple of days work, will take
the Leica and hope for some good light, failing that the dark nectar will
have to do!

Jem

Jem