Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 1/27/04 11:22 AM, George Lottermoser at imagist@imagist.cnc.net wrote: > B. D. Colen1/27/04 > >> a unit couldn't be attached to the bottom and back of an M that placed >> the sensor at the proper distance, or that one couldn't design a new >> body that used M lenses and was a rangefinder camera...This will >> probably never happen, but someone is missing a real bet if they don't >> do it, given the number of Leica glass fanatics out there, as well as >> the number of lenses waiting to be used.. ;-) > > > Hear, Hear, or is it > Here, Here, anyway > where are the Marty Forshers of today. > Remember the Polaroid back (er bottom) for the Nikon Fs? > Wasn't that Marty's? > IIRC the Forsher polaroid back for the F didn't work too well with lenses shorter than 200mm - the oblique ray thing, even w/o pixels. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html