[LRflex] Re: Future R system
- From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:16:31 -0700
At 12:01 AM 05/08/2010, you wrote:
>Another thing that has been discussed plenty here is the future of
>the R system. Sorry but i dont have the time to read everything, so :
>Can you guys tell me what the latest situation is on this ? I dont
>want to start some discussion here, just want to know (in short) the
>facts. Thank you and greetings !
Hi Axel!
The facts are that Leica have announced that there will be no
successor in the R line. All their remaining stock has been sold
off, at bargain rates, and is available through a small number of retailers.
There is to be an "adequate solution" for we who own R glass, but it
is now a couple of years, with no solution in sight, rumoured or announced.
If there is no "adequate solution" for R users announced at the
upcoming Photokina, you can probably assume that the R is a dead
end. Sad, but true.
And that's about it.
All of this, of course, has led to a large number of people putting
Leitax mounts on their R glass and moving to Pentax, Nikon, etc. Of
course, R glass can also be used on Canon and Olympus (4-Thirds &
Micro 4 Thirds) cameras, via adapters. All of these solutions are
stop-down metering only, but otherwise quite successful. YMMV.
Cheers!
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