Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/10

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To: dech0001@gold.tc.umn.edu
Subject: Re: leica and other brands
From: pgs@thillana.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick Sobalvarro)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 12:39:19 -0400
Cc: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
 
   From: "Jan Decher" <dech0001@gold.tc.umn.edu>
   Date: Tue, 9 Jul 96 11:11:05 -0500

    Leica would be smart to interact with other (Kyocera, Novoflex, Tamron etc.).  
   Why shouldn't we be able to use a Zeiss Tessar 2.8/45 mm "pancake lens" on a 
   Leica R 6 (would make the R6 a lot more attractive to me!).  

Leica does interact very strongly with other manufacturers on their R
line stuff.  Novoflex makes a focusing base for the 400mm and 560mm
lenses, and that base is sold by Leica.  Zeiss makes the 15mm
Super-Elmar-R.  Schneider makes a 21mm Super Angulon as well as the
28mm shift lens.  Then there are the Minolta and Sigma lenses in the
Leica R lineup.

But I have to agree that selling lenses in other manufacturer's mounts
would have been a good idea for Leica.  Probably too late in these
days of autofocus.

Actually, here's a good possibility.  Maybe the rumored
Kyocera-manufactured 80-200 zoom means that Leica has partnered with
Kyocera on the next body and it'll use the Contax AX autofocusing
technology.