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Subject: [Leica] 21mm f1.4 Summilux - the next "must have?"
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 06:24:02 +0100
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Also, there is no room on the current frame line mechanism for 40 as well as 
35 framelines.
Frank

On 6 Jul, 2010, at 04:43, Marty Deveney wrote:

> Leica are happy to make external viewfinders that they can sell at
> additional cost to the bodies but modifying the frameline sets in the
> camera, with assoiated increased manufacturing costs doesn't seem to
> please them.  I don't want an external finder and I doubt Leica are
> going to make a lens for thirty year old CLs and CLEs or (I imagine
> this would give Leica a shudder) the Cosina R3A/M.  But I also accept
> that I can't expect Leica to make everything that I think I want.
> 
> Marty
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
>>> A new 40 would be very nice.  Leica they seem reluctant to have
>>> different finder frameline sets or magnifications except with the a la
>>> carte price premium, so I don't think a 40 seems likely.  But it would
>>> be nice, Leica, if you're listening...
>>> 
>>> Marty
>> 
>> Having come out with an 18 and the tri elmar wide maybe they are liking
>> making viewfinders now and selling them. I think making those two optics 
>> may
>> have loosened them up a bit on that end.
>> 
>> 
>> [Rabs]
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Replies: Reply from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] 21mm f1.4 Summilux - the next "must have?")
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