Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Didier, Wasn't the M 0,58 made by Leica ? ;-) A nice move, but not a great success. Lucien Didier Ludwig wrote : > Most releases were presented before the photokina or in the first > two days. Nothing to blog about afterwards. Except the announcement > from Mr. K of Cosina to produce a Voigtlander Bessa R4a/R4m RF > camera with 21/25/28/35/50 framelines (TomA and S. Gandy even > proposed to drop the 50 framelines in favor of a 40). As usual, Mr. > K did not choose the glaring lights of the photokina boothes for > that, but a discrete hotel room, just with a few handpicked guests. > > Btw I find the idea of a strictly wide angle oriented rangefinder > camera very consequent and fascinating. Leica has got another "not > invented here" problem. > > Didier > > >> Popular Photography's editor had said he would send daily podcasts >> about >> Photokina every day last week. Unfortunately, he appears to have >> pooped out >> after day 3. Is there a web site where there is good covereage of >> everything >> that was presented at this month's Photokina? The web site that >> looked most >> authoritative had lots of advanced previews of things before >> Photokina even >> started last week. Is that the "best" site? >> >> Jeffery Smith >