Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, If you put a IIIc baseplate to baseplate with an M8 you are only talking about a couple of mm's thicker and maybe 5mm's higher. This isn't like handguns where there is a lot of difference between a 32 and a 38, or even a 38 to a 40. Of course a 357 compared to a 38 is a very different thing. Anyway, the difference between a LTM and an M8 is very minor considering you get a meter and a motor. Attach a Mooly to a IIIc and you have a Frankenstein sized camera or at least a D2x. Put one of the old LTM lenses on an M8 and you have a very tiny camera. Say, a 35 Summaron or a 35 Serenar, or a 28 3.5 Canon. Slides right in a jacket pocket just waiting for something interesting to happen or can be made to happen. On 6/23/07, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > > > On 6/23/07 6:10 PM, "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> typed: > > > Well, actually, there is a Barnack digital. It produces wonderful > images > > and uses lenses going back deep into the 1930's to the present. Lenses > from > > illustrious firms like Zeiss, Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Schneider, > Angenioux, > > Taylor, Reid, Leica camera, and many others. > > > > I went to the Gay Pride event today with the Barnack digital and six > lenses > > in a tiny Domke bag. No weight really and marvelously flexible. I even > saw > > one used for $4000. Go ahead, fear not for it works marvelously well. > > > > On 6/23/07, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> > The M8? Great camera! > > But its an M digital. > > Barnacks are screw mounts. And earlier ones at that. > The IIIA by hard core experts might be the last one so we are in the area > of > changing lenses. > > And pocketable size. > > If we all used Barnacks or screw mounts we wouldn't be talking so much > about > which compact camera to buy to have with us. We'd already have one. > > The Leica screw mounts also called thread mounts (LTM's) are just the > right > size. The film is 24x36 how big does a body have to be? Look at a Rollei > 35? > Look at an Olympus OM1. > > The M could have been smaller. The mount makes it have to be bigger? I > cant > see why. > > > > > Mark William Rabiner > Harlem, NY > > rabinergroup.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com