[LRflex] the new Leicas ...

Philippe, Yes, you are right, a range finder with an electronic viewfinder ! 
The solution of the ME is indeed a updated VisioFlex The Fuji X Pro1 with it's 
very well enginnered X to M adapter is seen as a potential threat by Leica..... 
And the fuji XE1, i've reported to the list is certainly a good plug in for the 
R lenses. Will fuji make a R to X adapter? the R system was discontinued long 
ago to be in the public domain, so I hope. All it needs for the fuji XE1 is a 
focus peaking system in the viewfinder. It could come as a simulated range 
finder patch, two colored circles to align horizontally. When the circles are 
aligned, they dim out in a light and thin white patch. A press on the AFL 
button would reactivate the function, it is reactivated after a picture is 
taken or if the camera was put to sleep or change of mode (P to M, A to M mode, 
for instance) Of course, this is operated only when the RtoX adapted is mounted 
and communicate with the body. Sorry, I'm into functionnal requirements for 
designing a new system ! Fuji is not on the market to sale a body for lenses 
dating of the LeicaFlex. The combination of their sensor and the quality of the 
lens built for a format 3:2 albeit a different crop factor, is certainly more 
"legacy" than anything else ! Waiting for the next Camera fair of Paris......
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From : Xavier F. BILLE 
mail : hot_billexf@xxxxxxxxxxx
Maisons Alfort - France





 From: philippe.amard@xxxxxx
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [LRflex] Re: 1917 + the new Leicas ...
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:39:10 +0200



Le 18 sept. 12 à 09:31, Bille Xavier F. a écrit :Salut Philippe, messieurs les 
Flexers
 
A very nice collection !
 
And indeed, a good chance to visit the east of France while still sitting on my 
butt by the Marne River.
 
For US listers, Verdun, another place that paid the high tribute in the Great 
War is located in the "departement" (er, county) of "Marne", the same river 
flows upstream.
 
From all the pictures, this one made me smile:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Doulce+France/Metz/MSM-MTZ-1038.jpg.html
 
It's a must have in all pubs where beer (much more than a breakfast drink...) 
flows in.
 
It's sort of funny they exhibit such a piece of furniture, under a glass dome, 
in the middle of the room.
 

Thanks Xavier :-)The glass case is meant to prevent people from fizzily adding 
to its artistic value ...More on Duchamp's Fountain including a photograph by 
Stieglitz, eh oui!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)

Superb framing, I keep telling you every time but it's so true as seen from my 
eye.
 
Ah, Girls and Motorbikes, Alice and Motobecane good use of a wide angle :
 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Doulce+France/Metz/MSM-MTZ-1034.jpg.html
 
I see your shadow, kneeling, just near the top of the front wheel, with your 
shulder bag on the left side.....
 

I'm so sad they had cleaned the windows ;-)

OTT there are 2 - read TWO - new Leicas out there. One of which claims to be 
"the adequate solution for R users" but is no more than a PanaOly sort of 
contraption that would rank high in Heath Robinson's complete works.The add-on 
EVF is a joke - and the adaptor offers no AE for all I know, etc.Have any of 
their brilliant engineers ever used an R, or had a look at the glorious VF of a 
Leicaflex? I'm still wondering.
AMitiésPhilippe, R9 Dieselless



Thanks !!!
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From : Xavier F. BILLE 
mail : hot_billexf@xxxxxxxxxxx
Maisons Alfort - France





 
> From: philippe.amard@xxxxxx
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [LRflex] 1917 as seen by Centre Pompidou Metz - a glimpse of ...
> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:42:28 +0200
> CC: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> We paid a visit to Le Centre Pompidou-Metz this morning for an 
> exhibition focussed on the Year 1917.
> Greg will remember the place I think.
> 
> So here is an very limited excerpt of the works and artefacts on 
> display; the lead is that these works of art were created in the very 
> specific context of WWI.
> The result is a mix of military reminders, works of arts produced by 
> the population at large and by the soldiers themselves, photographs 
> and casts showing the atrocious conditions both sides to the conflict 
> lived in or survived with.
> It also includes pieces famous the world over and created on that year 
> 1917.
> 
> My selection starts here:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Doulce+France/Metz/MSM-MTZ-1058.jpg.html
> 
> and proceeds to the right.
> Some may be better viewed LARGE.
> 
> Bien cordialement de Metz, Lorraine
> Philippe
> 
> More on the Center at
> http://www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/1917
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