Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob Yes, but when that lens was offered for a Leica M body, not many complained. (I know, I shudda bought one when it was first offered in 1972) Jerry Bob Shell wrote: > The Hologon body was simply a Contarex with the mirror box removed. As > such it has the same shutter sound as a Contarex without the whirr of > the mirror going up. > > Bob > > On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 02:57 PM, TrueBadger@aol.com wrote: > > > Apart from the lenses in my Rollei's, the only Zeiss item I own is a > > Hologon Ultrawide, one of the original ones mounted in it's own > > dedicated (but truly pathetic) body. The lens is amazing, so is the > > body, but in the sense of amazingly crummy. > > Even the rewind crank is amatuerish, and if you can raise the crank > > without breaking a fingernail, it digs into the ball of your thumb to > > turn it. Also it's actually hard to belive a non-SLR 35mm body could > > be made to have such a noisy shutter. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html