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Subject: [Leica] Re: Vs: Re: Vs: Re: Nikon S3
From: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 12:47:52 -0400

No quotes; only my own experience with a Nikon 135 on a Contax IIIa.

Ken Wilcox

At 7:05 +0200 8/18/0, a fine scholar, Raimo Korhonen wrote:

>Do you have any figures to substantiate this? It might be a myth like the
>one that those Nikon lenses for Contax were marked with "C". Robert
>Rotoloni writes in his books "Nikon Rangefinder Camera" that "From the
>Contax they took ... bayonet lens mount, back focus". What else should
>there be? I have no personal experience of this so I try to rely on the
>authorities.
>All the best!
>Raimo
>photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen
>
>-----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
>Lähettäjä: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>
>Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
><leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Päivä: 17. elokuuta 2000 23:20
>Aihe: [Leica] Re: Vs: Re: Nikon S3
>
>
>>The mount is the same but the focus is not. They can be used interchangably
>>at 50mm or less but the longer lenses will have problems at large apertures.
>>
>>Ken Wilcox
>>
>>At 11:06 +0200 8/17/0, a fine scholar, Raimo Korhonen wrote:
>>
>>>The old Contax RF lens mount is identical to the Nikon RF mount (which is
>>>close to Nikon SLR mount).
>>>All the best!
>>>Raimo
>>>photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen
>>>
>>>-----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
>>>Lähettäjä: Tim Spragens <t.spragens@cityweb.de>
>>>Vastaanottaja: Leica Users digest <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>>>Päivä: 17. elokuuta 2000 21:52
>>>Aihe: [Leica] Re: Nikon S3
>>>
>>>
>>>If they would build the thing with a ZI Contax mount, rather than the
>>>Nikon derivative, it would be a much more attractive camera.
>>>There's a lot of glass out there from ZI and from Jupiter that would
>>>work, then. Be nice to have an old Contax with a thumb-lever film
>>>advance. Doesn't look like Kiev did that very well.
>>>
>>>Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Tim Spragens
>>>http://www.borderless-photos.com
>>
>>
>>----
>>Ken Wilcox                                Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits
>>   preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com>
>>         <kwilcox@gfn.org>
>>
>>


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