Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OK - you have the experience and IMHO that settles it. All the best! Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com> Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Päivä: 18. elokuuta 2000 19:08 Aihe: [Leica] Re: Vs: Re: Vs: Re: Nikon S3 >No quotes; only my own experience with a Nikon 135 on a Contax IIIa. > >Ken Wilcox > >At 7:05 +0200 8/18/0, a fine scholar, Raimo Korhonen wrote: > >>Do you have any figures to substantiate this? It might be a myth like the >>one that those Nikon lenses for Contax were marked with "C". Robert >>Rotoloni writes in his books "Nikon Rangefinder Camera" that "From the >>Contax they took ... bayonet lens mount, back focus". What else should >>there be? I have no personal experience of this so I try to rely on the >>authorities. >>All the best! >>Raimo >>photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen >> >>-----Alkuperäinen viesti----- >>Lähettäjä: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com> >>Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >><leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >>Päivä: 17. elokuuta 2000 23:20 >>Aihe: [Leica] Re: Vs: Re: Nikon S3 >> >> >>>The mount is the same but the focus is not. They can be used interchangably >>>at 50mm or less but the longer lenses will have problems at large apertures. >>> >>>Ken Wilcox >>> >>>At 11:06 +0200 8/17/0, a fine scholar, Raimo Korhonen wrote: >>> >>>>The old Contax RF lens mount is identical to the Nikon RF mount (which is >>>>close to Nikon SLR mount). >>>>All the best! >>>>Raimo >>>>photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen >>>> >>>>-----Alkuperäinen viesti----- >>>>Lähettäjä: Tim Spragens <t.spragens@cityweb.de> >>>>Vastaanottaja: Leica Users digest <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >>>>Päivä: 17. elokuuta 2000 21:52 >>>>Aihe: [Leica] Re: Nikon S3 >>>> >>>> >>>>If they would build the thing with a ZI Contax mount, rather than the >>>>Nikon derivative, it would be a much more attractive camera. >>>>There's a lot of glass out there from ZI and from Jupiter that would >>>>work, then. Be nice to have an old Contax with a thumb-lever film >>>>advance. Doesn't look like Kiev did that very well. >>>> >>>>Tim >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Tim Spragens >>>>http://www.borderless-photos.com >>> >>> >>>---- >>>Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits >>> preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> >>> <kwilcox@gfn.org> >>> >>> > > >---- >Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits > preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> > <kwilcox@gfn.org> > > >