RE: [Leica] Konica HEXAR RF Lenses reviewed in CI #220

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

I bet you both a roll of film the Hexar gets rebadged as a Leica M-type.
Maybe this will force Leica into the modern world.  Maybe they will
actually develop a new body on their own too? God, what's next?!
(An AF R camera, I bet!)

Peter K
Living in the present

- -----Original Message-----
From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 2:58 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Konica HEXAR RF Lenses reviewed in CI #220


Eric...Screw the lenses...To paraphrase James Carville, "It's the body,
stupid!" :-) If one already has the Leica glass, and M bodies, IF the Konica
body proves to be hardy and as described, doesn't it in fact provide most of
the modern amenities for those times you might want them - without anyone's
having to muck around the with the proven perfection of the M line?

B. D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> Eric Welch
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 3:39 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Konica HEXAR RF Lenses reviewed in CI #220
>
>
> sometime around 12/14/99 4:50 AM, Gaifana@aol.com at
> Gaifana@aol.com was
> heard  to write:
>
> > "Leica, which cannot continue to capitalize indefinitely on its myth
> > (certainly justified), should react, if it is not with the
> appearance of new
> > Hexar, at least to the pressure of its more faithful
> aficionados. If optical
> > excellence, spearhead of the German firm, is always of
> topicality, force is
> > to note that a serious breach has just been open in
> Germanic hegemony. The
> > more so as nothing prevents an owner of Hexar RF from
> assembling Leitz optics
> > on its body..."
>
> Same old camera magazine hyperbole? Have they done surveys of
> Leica owners?
> No. What do they know. Opinions are like belly buttons,
> everyone has one.
>
> The main thing stopping one from buying lenses for the Hexar,
> for me anyway,
> is I wouldn't trust them with faster lenses.
>
> --
>
> Eric Welch
> Carlsbad, CA
> http://www.neteze.com/ewelch
>
> Zen master to hotdog vendor. "Make me one with everything."
>
>
>