Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Lucien_vD wrote: >> >> Luggers, >> >> I have just discover that on the new Leica-R lenses with electrical >> contact, there is 11 contacts (9 on the back & 2 on the bayonet). >> The Nikon AF lenses have only 5 contacts and 8 in the body. >> >> It is difficult to believe that those 11 contacts are only for the >> transmission of the focal length to the Flash zoom. >> >> What do you think ?? >> >> Lucien >> BELGIUM > > >Lucien: The contacts are there to send secret information back to the Leitz >factory about the users of the new R8. Once they receive such information, >Leitz can transmit coded messages to such users in which they get an >irresistible urge to buy more Leica R lenses. Why else would such >contacts be there? > >With tongue in cheek, my very best regards, > >Elliot Elliot, Could these extra contacts connect to the new "enigma" coding units in Solms? Your joking suggestion might give their marketing spin-doctors ideas, eh? Lens conversions (add rom ) should bring a lot of additional biz and create a new category for intrepid collectors: R-lens-versions with 1/2/3 cams, for R only and now R 8 style. -otto- otto w. rath, 504-633, northcliffe blvd. toronto on. M6E 3M3 canada (416) 783 5128