Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Any Photokina New Products Rumors?
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 07:36:35 -0400

Jeff Moore jotted down the following:
 
> The question is: how would frameline selection be done for framelines
> not yet part of the traditional set?  A switch on the body?

Well, we can assume that a low-mag body wouldn't be used with anything
longer than a 50mm lens, so my suggestion would be to pair the 50mm
frameline with a 21mm or 24mm frameline, rather than the 75mm one.  So, a
low mag body would give you:

  24/50
  28
  35

...in the three positions.  As far as I know, if you mount the existing 21mm
and 24mm lenses on an M-body, they bring up the 50mm frameline, right?
Would avoid re-machining of existing lenses.  Hmm, you could even ditch the
50mm frameline and just go with 24/28/35, sort of a wide-angle M2 VF.

(Mmm.  Sweet ;)

M.

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