Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/05

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Pronunciation of "bokeh"
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 13:51:33 -0400

> What I don't comprehend is why make such a camera in screw mount?  Why
> not M mount, and then anyone who truly wishes to shoot with 50 year-old
> lenses could use a bayonet adapter and do so to their heart's content;
> meanwhile the rest of us would have a modern camera to use the latest
> and greatest Leica lenses on.
>
> Regards,
> Nigel
>
>
A perfectly reasonable question...But the point is it has apparently been
done...and one wonders why Leitz wasn't the company to do it, or have it
done....