Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Why are LTM versions so expensive
From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:47:00 +0200
References: <12.25c219e.26f539fd@aol.com>

Why would Konica go with any other mount? The M mount is the best lens mount in
existence, so if a company is starting with a clean slate, why not use that?

Nathan

Krechtz@aol.com wrote:

> Probably the more
> interesting question is why Konica opted to go with the M mount,starting with
> a clean sheet of paper.  I suspect they wanted to appeal directly to M
> owners, easy adaptability of LTM to M regardless.
>
> Joe Sobel

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