"Mike Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is OT for the Pentax list, but a juicy bit of new camera news > nonetheless: evidently Cosina's website is announcing a new rangefinder on > March 15th, and the Leica User Group is abuzz with speculation that it will > feature an M-mount. > > As you probably know, the Konica Hexar RF features the Leica M-mount, which > evidently went out of patent protection in the mid-'90s. So far, Cosina's > "Voigtlaender" rangerfinder, the Bessa-R, has been LTM (Leica Thread Mount). > > Are we about to see a "Bessa M"--a cheap M-mount camera for the first time > since the Minolta CLE was discontinued? That could be. OTOH, Mr. Kobayashi had publicly rejected the idea of making M mount camera in the past. Additionally, Cosina has recently announced 3 lenses in Nikon/Contax mount. Could this new Bessa come in Nikon/Contax mount? We'll know in 2 weeks. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
