On Feb 19, 2004, at 1:34 AM, Jim Brokaw wrote:
>
> The camera is interesting but I don't see any advantage to having them
> make
> it in OM mount. The rangefinder would not couple to Zuiko lenses, so it
> would be strictly scale focusing. Even if it offered manual control of
> aperture and shutter speed, it would be more awkward to use than an
> adapter
> on a Canon digital SLR. The digital Epson/Cosina rangefinder is pretty
> much
> only going to be useful with Leica and Cosina-Voigtlander and similar
> mount
> lenses, some of which are not too bad anyway... <g>
No, I didn't mean as an RF. Cosina has gotten a huge amount of mileage
out of that body. Bessa L, T, R, R2, OM-2000, FM-10, FE-10 (I think
those are the 2 Nikon bodies, could be wrong), etc, etc. One of the
more recent variations was an M42 mount SLR. My thinking was that if
they can put a digital back on this body and make it work as an RF then
they can probably do the same thing with any of the SLR versions of the
body too.
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