Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica 0.58x
From: Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:59:03 -0700

I think Erwin may be right - the combo of the .58, the motor, the 28
Summicron, and the new Tri-Elmar might be one of the world's great
travel/editorial kits.  I've got a serious lech going for the whole kit and
kaboodle.

BTW, there's be no point putting pop-up 21 or 24mm frame lines in a Leica at
the moment - the lenses wouldn't activate them.  The best they could do for
wider lenses might be to put in a permanent 24mm frame line.  But as I
understand it, that's not the point of the .58 - it's the "high-eyepoint"
Leica everyone's been yelling for.  Of course when Konica did it, everyone
complained that it made the effective baselength too short. I bet it'll get
lots of praise now that Leica's done it, though.

Paul

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin Howard [mailto:howard.390@osu.edu]
>Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 3:34 PM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: [Leica] Leica 0.58x
>
>
>
>Hey, cool.  Just surfed over to the Leica Camera homepage and 
>they have a
>Photokina special on.  This is probably old news, but they're 
>releasing an
>M6 TTL with 0.58x finder (although it doesn't appear to have any wider
>framlines than the 28mm) and a new motor the size of a 
>RapidWinder with what
>appears to be an integrated grip.
>
>M.
>
>