Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Hasselblad XPan-1 and new Leicas
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 20:51:43 -0500

At 05:08 PM 8/19/98 +0100, you wrote:

>which replaces both "current" 135mm M lenses.  Another
>rumour they mentioned was the new Contax medium format
>rangefinder, which is still rumour, but when the author of the
>article contacted Contax to ask about it, their initial reaction
>was "how did you know about that!"...

It's also made by Fuji, and it's 645. And it's a rangefinder, and the
lenses for it are described to me as "to die for."

This is going to be one interesting Photokina.


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