Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/13

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Subject: [Leica] New ZM Tessar
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Mon Oct 13 07:34:05 2008
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> BTW, Carl  ( may I call you Carl?  We Americans are so informal...)) :  The
> Leica cameras have frame lines of 28, 35, 50, 75, 90, and 135 mm.  There is
> no  85mm frame lines.  If you are going to introduce a lens to fit a 
> camera,
> do it right.  Make the FL fit the available viewfinder options.  It is a
> matter of marketing, not engineering......  You blew it.

The Zeiss-Ikon has 85mm framelines.

Daniel
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