Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/27

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: R lenses on Canon bodies
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:57:17 -0500

;-)
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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Doug Herr
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 6:55 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: R lenses on Canon bodies


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


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