Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The first mention I saw of this was in Foto Magazin of March '98. It was announced as something certain to be seen during '98 and sustained by an artist sketch. The sketch clearly showed electronic contacts à la G and a non-M mount. The same issue had other predictions: a TTL M6 (!), the EOS-3, a 28-105 mmm f2.8 Canon IS lens, a 135mm f2.8 for the Contax G system, a Pentax MZ-1, a 28-70 f2.8 AF-D Nikkor. So some predictions were right on spot, and some got nowhere. Looks like that March magazine took just over 2 months to be relayed by a Japanese magazine (just before Photokina) and then bounced back to the Internet community. During all that time I have not seen a single indication from Konica (interviews, articles in other magazines) that an interchangeable lens Hexar was on the way. Even less with a M mount. Any other sources on the matter ? Alan Mikiro M wrote: > > Hi, LUGgers. > > Yesterday I received the following answer from Konica to my inquiry about > Hexar-2 with the Leica M mount. (English translation by me) > > --snip-- > We have no plan to sell "Hexar-2". Although we do now know the source of > your information, the August 98 issue of CAPA (a Japanese camera journal) > reported release of Hexar-2. We have never been asked by the journal about > it. Similar reports were found in German and British journals in March. We > assume that you read the copies of them. > --snip-- > > ------------------------- > Konica webmaster Staff > webmaster@konica.co.jp > http://www.konica.co.jp/ > ------------------------- > > Does anyone have *reliable* information? > > Mikiro Mori > Strasbourg, Europe > ****************** > Visit my gallery at > http://members.tripod.com/arbos3/cigogne/index.html