Update: here is another photoshopped solution for Leica M lenses on Ricoh GXR.
This picture of a new "slide-in" lens piece for the Ricoh GXR was on the front cover of a Japanese magazine - if anyone owns a copy, I would like to know more about the content inside:
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Damn, that looks cool!
Fake! Why would the Ricoh need that selector left from the lense?
Lens mount adapter, so you can unlock and lock the lens?
Do they already have the new Pentax 645? Or is it just some other 645 camera or what they expect it to be?
Obviously a fake based on the lens mount button (the GXR body doesn’t have an indention cut out for that). However, if they can actually make a Leica-M mount module (with full frame sensor ideally) then that system just got 100x more interesting. That truly would be a poor mans Leica M9.
The slide-in appears to be an M-mount. The Zeiss lens in the image is LTM so an adapter was added. The external viewfinder is a Leica 21-24-28 tri-finder. The button on the left is the lens release and the lever on the right is the frameline override. Why would this module need a frameline override? Isn’t this camera EVIL?
Not EVIL, but what it is, I dont know.
I think the lens is a Contax G mount. But I believe that it can be used in a M mount camera with a mount adapter…
The shadows aren’t consistent. If not fake, this was at least photoshopped. The oval angle of the lens circle is also inconsistent with the finder, suggesting shopped.
That looks like a Zeiss G Biogon 21/2.8 lens I guess from the old G series Contax cameras. If true, this changes my whole thinking regarding Ricoh’s strategy.
+1 Carlos E.
+1 GlobalGuy
hehe, of course it is photoshopped, but the question is, will Ricoh make one like that? I am pessimistic.
I want that viewfinder for my GF1
Here’s a site that has a picture of a (supposed) M-Mount Ricoh GXR. As far as I can tell from the exceptionally poor Google and Babelfish translations, they admit it’s a fake … I think. I thought it was at least worth mentioning:
http://www.laura.jp/kh/2009/11/18101500.html
If they do make an M-Mount module, how will it focus? Just by eyeballing it in live view? No thanks.
of corse it’s fake, look at asa wheel on camera body
Hi,
I leave in Japan and had the magazine in my hands. It is photoshoped.
Howeber you should take a look at Nippon camera 2010/02 (60th anniversary) page 125 through 131. A lot of interesting pictures of what could be the future camera modules of the GXR.
Cheers,
Tregix.
I wish I could get this magazine in the US
lol…