Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/24
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At 6:45 PM -0400 7/24/01, Simon Stevens wrote:
>At 06:33 PM 07/23/2001, I wrote:
>
>> I'd like a third option that offers the
>>control and small size of an M, that feels familiar and that uses the
>>lenses I already have without changing their effective focal length.
>
>And Henry Posner replied:
>
>>Hroseman Digiflex. Uses Nikon-mount manual focus lenses and any digital
>
>>back (incl 24x36) with a Hasselblad film magazine mount. See
>>http://horsemanusa.com/pd_frame07.html
>- --
>>regards,
>>Henry Posner
>>Director of Sales and Training
>>B&H Photo-Video, and Pro-Audio Inc.
>>http://www.bhphotovideo.com
>
>Henry:
>
>Riiiight! And if you click to see the price you get the note that the
>page is under construction. Word has it that their supplier of zeroes
>had insufficient stock to complete the page.
>
>But anyway, it: A. doesn't look like an M, thus failing my first
>criteria that it feel familiar to me; B. use the lenses I already have -
>meaning M lenses because I sold my Nikon lenses years ago. On the other
>hand it is 24x36, but how practical is a one shot back outside of the
>studio?
>
>Back to the drawing board boys!
>
>Simon Stevens
I just got a blurb on the Digiflex in the mail. It's an SLR complete
with flapping mirror, and it has a metal shutter with speeds of
1-1/2000 sec. Strange.
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