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For you Leica R Shooters

Aside of the prototype price-premium, is there anything special with that lens?
Fast catadioptric lenses had already been made.
 
AgX said:
Aside of the prototype price-premium, is there anything special with that lens?
Fast catadioptric lenses had already been made.
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What is special is that there is a SINGLE copy of this lens.
 
That is why I wrote "prototype".
 
You two should quit haggling over it and just buy it!
 
I guess the flange focal distance is too short to adapt to the FD mount.
I then would have to buy an R-body just for it...
 
If there were two I might be interested -- shooting stereo, ya know?
 
AgX said:
I guess the flange focal distance is too short to adapt to the FD mount.
I then would have to buy an R-body just for it...
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We canon FD users are not impressed with a PROTOTYPE 600mm f5.0 mirror lens, when we can have an actual PRODUCTION Canon 800mm f3.8 mirror lens.

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources/fdlenses/reflex8002000/cat.htm

On the other hand the Leicaflex bodies are sublime, and the "R" bodies are also great, being "improved and refined" Minolta cameras. (I say this as a good thing, i appreciate Minolta cameras.)
 
Yeah but for all that money one would still get brokeh donuts.
 
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