Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/04

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Subject: Re: Vs: [Leica] Leica R death
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 00:15:55 -0400

Peterson Arthur G NSSC jotted down the following:

> You're right about that!  Bring back the 180mm f/2.8 for Visoflex!  Or how
> about a zoom?...say, 70-210mm f/4.0?  And a 2X extender?

Get an R and a 14167 adapter.  Then you can mount both expensive, high-speed
R lenses, and the cheap, slower, older viso lenses.  A 2x extender should be
no problem with the 14167, you simply mount it between the camera and the
adapter.  Hey presto, you have a 560mm f/9.6 lens!

M.

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