Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We might have been closer than we know to a Fuji built Leica. When Fuji started developing the TX-1 or what later became the Hasselblad X-Pan, the first company they asked as a partner was Leica Germany. Unfortunately Leica said." We are not interested!". In my estimation, it could have been a great match. Fuji's advanced technology for exposure metering, filmadvance etc and matched to Leica's lens making capability! A Leica Panorama or LeicaWide with a designated M-mount and the ability to use M-lenses for 24x36 and using the Fuji lenses for the 24x65 coverage (and, in a pinch, be able to use the 90/4 Fuji as a telephoto lens on the 24x36 setting)! The focussing cam and roller system in the TX-1 looks and behaves very much as the M-system, the finder is similar, except for the 90 frame which is a magnified frame (constant size but 'tele" view). Tom A