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Is this the Leica R-mount solution?

By LR admin | September 2, 2009

Stefan Daniel (Leica Product Manager) said that “there will be a good solution that allows us to use our R-lenses on a digital body.” Today Panasonic announced the GF1 M4/3 camera and with it a R-mount adapter:

panasonic r mount adapter Is this the Leica R mount solution?

Here is the Leica R mount lens compatibility table:

r mount compatibility table Is this the Leica R mount solution?

Here are some pictures of this adapter in action:

panasonic r adapter Is this the Leica R mount solution?

panasonic r adapter 3 Is this the Leica R mount solution?

panasonic r adapter 2 Is this the Leica R mount solution?

Images via stranger_than_Tokyo @ flickr

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8 Comments

  1. NikoDoby
    Posted September 2, 2009 at 8:50 pm | Permalink

    OK, so the X1 is a Pany GF1 with a red dot on it. $2000US price for the X1 then?

  2. Athlon
    Posted September 2, 2009 at 11:02 pm | Permalink

    It could… be it shouldn’t be the “R solution”, since it’s just not satisfactory. Looking at my dear lenses through an EVF? Holly crap!
    Let’s hope for a Baby S2.

  3. NikoDoby
    Posted September 2, 2009 at 11:05 pm | Permalink

    Ha a baby S2? That would be like what $13,500US :)

  4. Dr. Thyl Engelhardt
    Posted September 2, 2009 at 11:41 pm | Permalink

    More likely imho will be an R adapter for use with the M9. It might have the electronics to control the R lenses!?

  5. STT
    Posted September 3, 2009 at 1:12 am | Permalink

    This adaptor has no ROM.
    Only attach to the Micro 3/4 camera..

  6. STT
    Posted September 3, 2009 at 1:38 am | Permalink

    X-1 made in Germany.
    Not Panasonic OEM.

  7. fotomik
    Posted September 3, 2009 at 2:32 am | Permalink

    I fail to see how a 2x crop can be seen as a “Good solution” by the Leica execs… But an adapter for a FF-Leica M…? I’d buy THAT for a dollar.

  8. Waldorff & Stattler
    Posted September 3, 2009 at 9:22 am | Permalink

    this is old news…