Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Hexar RF/M7
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 18:37:15 -0000

> << Konica Hexar RF (released in Dec)
>
>  Exposure: aperture-priority AE and manual
>  Viewfinder: magnification, 0.6; >>
>
> With a finder magnification of 0.6 (same as the Leica CL)
> unless this camera
> has an initial baselength of at least 83mm or some newfangled form of
> electronic focusing device, users of the fast or longer
> lenses aren't going
> to be overwhelmingly won over from the M6.  Judging by the
> lengths and speeds
> of the Japanese lenses so far, this camera seems more like
> the Contax G (with
> its focus limitations) than the M6.
>
> DT
 EXCEPT - If I understand this information, this camera should take the
Leica lenses...which means that if any M users want it, there will be a
"modern" electronic body with which to use the M lenses in addition to the
M...