Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] HEXAR LS-2
From: "Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:50:32 -0500

MArc-
Maybe, just maybe, once Konica starts marketing it, it'll light a fire under
the Leica marketing staff!

Dan
- -----Original Message-----
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 7:23 PM
Subject: [Leica] HEXAR LS-2


>A "Prominent Photographic Magazine Editor" who was at PMA sent me this:
>>
>>Quick note.  Although Konica would not say word one about the camera, I
>>bumped into Stefan Daniel from Leica (Director of the M camera programme).
>>Stefan knows quite a bit about the camera and has seen it.  He confirmed
>>that it uses M bayonet, and that Konica will initially offer 28, 50 and 90
>>mm lenses.  He said that while Leica is not happy about it there is
nothing
>>they can do since any patents on the M mount are long expired.  He
promised
>>to e-mail me more information if he gets it.
>
>
>Marc
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>