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Subject: Vs: [Leica] Re: Vs: Re: Vs: Re: Nikon S3
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:07:39 +0200

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
>>>
>>>
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>>>         <kwilcox@gfn.org>
>>>
>>>
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>         <kwilcox@gfn.org> 
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