Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/04

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Min. focus accuracy of Leica lenses and the Hexar RF
From: "Dan Honemann" <danh@selectsa.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 22:39:45 -0500

This begs the question: why bother using an M mount if you're going to make
it incompatible with M lenses?!

Dan

> Bob Shell, former editor of Shutterbug, stated that Konica have
> intentionally set the Hexar's back focus to be 0.01mm/0.01inch (it was
> not clear which) longer than the Leica M's. I assume he got this
> information from official sources.

Replies: Reply from Akhil Lal <akhil.lal@bcc.cuny.edu> (Re: [Leica] Re: Min. focus accuracy of Leica lenses and the Hexar RF)