Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/22

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Subject: [Leica] Official picture of digital-M?
From: summicron at bellsouth.net (Frank F. Farmer)
Date: Thu Dec 22 16:34:57 2005
References: <43965AF900082CBD@mssbzhh-int.msg.bluewin.ch> <0273BFE0-70FD-413B-BECA-F583B872FAFE@bellsouth.net>

Everything I've heard indicates that Leica's new, wider lenses WILL 
work on film bodies.

Frank Farmer
Jackson, Miss.

On Dec 22, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Mark wrote:

> I wonder if the new lenses will work on the Film Bodies, M7,MP,M3 ect ?
>
> Right now the widest I have is a 35 and I was going to buy myself a 
> wider
> lens for christmas, but I think I will wait until we learn more about 
> what new
> lenses are coming.
>
> Mark
>
> On Dec 22, 2005, at 4:51 PM, pwerner@bluewin.ch wrote:
>
>> Tina,
>>
>> The article in the German edition of LFI seems clearer: Leica is 
>> going to
>> present new wide-angle lenses at the same time as the Digital M. The 
>> reason
>> is that the current lenses will become "longer" on the DM due to the 
>> crop
>> factor. The 21 behaves like a 28 and the 28 like a 35. Therefore 
>> there will
>> be the need for new, shorter (wider) lenses to fill the gap. These 
>> lenses
>> will be usable on both the Digital M and the film M bodies.
>>
>> Peter
>
>
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