[LRflex] Leica 4/3rds Adapter
- From: Howard Cummer <cummer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:40:50 +0800
On 17 Jun 2007, at 2:12 PM, FreeLists Mailing List Manager wrote:
> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:03:42 -0700
> From: David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> The Leica News letter I received today speaks of the Adaptor
>> Reflex lens to
>> 4/3. They advertise it as a craftman product made in Germany....
>
> This is a Leica built piece, and I understand that the first lot of
> 1000 sold out very quickly. US price was rumoured to be $225, but I
> do not know this, for sure.
>
> Howard got to handle (fondle?) a prototype, at the last
> Photokina. (I only got to see it, from about 3 meters away!)
>
> Can you give us any insight into the differences between the Leica
> and the various Chinese adapters, Howard?
>
Hi David,
First let me congratulate you on the humming bird shot - it is a
classic and you should sell a lot of copies.
About the 4/3rd adaptor - you may recall that Steven Lee whipped one
out of his pocket when we met him and then I used his Leica 21 - 35
zoom on my Oly 330E to take pictures during our meeting. I use an
adaptor made in China - you can see a picture on Gary Todoroff's
Lympa log of the exact model
<http://www.northcoastphotos.com/Lympa.htm>
My recollection is that the Leica adaptor was well made and fit on my
Oly very smoothly - but so does the Chinese made one - a better
quality than the R to EOS adaptors I have used that were also made in
China. The Chinese adaptor is about US$77 in Hong Kong which is quite
a savings over the Leica one.
Cheers
Howard
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