Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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> >> >> - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> <kwilcox@gfn.org>