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Subject: [Leica] Interview re. Leica-Olympus-Panasonic menage
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Sat Feb 12 06:50:55 2005
References: <3.0.6.32.20050212093227.0083deb0@pop.mail.yahoo.ca>

I agree.  It sure looks like the mount is standardized, though it 
doesn't say so explicitly.  A 4/3 Leica would be a rather fat 
rangefinder camera with a non-M mount.  The system looks optimized 
for the DSLRs.

>And yet the little Flash show at that website displays a diagram with
>little arrows going everying showing how "Lens A" will fit on "Camera B"
>and vice versa.
>
>-dan c.
>
>At 01:57 PM 12-02-05 +0100, Didier Ludwig wrote:
>>Karen
>>I have read that page too and was just simplifying when i said only the
>>sensor is standardized. The diameter of the mount is standardized, BUT NOT
>>the mount itself, though Sigma is offering some Olympus 4/3 mount lenses.
>>Proprietary mounts from other manufacturers are explicitely not excluded.
>>Didier
>>
>>>Bzzz... The "The Four Thirds System  standardizes the diameter of the
>>>lens mount, the size of the image  circle, the flange-focal distance,
>>>and more." See:
>>><http://www.four-thirds.org/en/index_01.htm>http://www.four-thirds.org/en/
>index_01.htm
>>>Cheers,
>>>Karen
>>
>
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-- 
Regards,

Dick
Boston MA

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