Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Pronunciation of "bokeh"
From: nbwatson@juno.com (N. B. Watson)
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 17:22:27 EDT

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 13:51:33 -0400 "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
writes:
>> What I don't comprehend is why make such a camera in screw mount?  
>Why
>> not M mount, and then anyone who truly wishes to shoot with 50 
>year-old
>> lenses could use a bayonet adapter and do so to their heart's 
>content;
>> meanwhile the rest of us would have a modern camera to use the 
>latest
>> and greatest Leica lenses on.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nigel
>>
>>
>A perfectly reasonable question...But the point is it has apparently 
>been
>done...and one wonders why Leitz wasn't the company to do it, or have 
>it
>done....
>
>
         I would agree to wonder that, except that I'm still busy
wondering why Leitz never manufactured (or had it done) an M camera even
as modern as the CLE.

Regards,
Nigel

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