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

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Subject: [Leica] Official picture of digital-M?
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Thu Dec 22 20:40:49 2005
References: <43965AF900082CBD@mssbzhh-int.msg.bluewin.ch> <0273BFE0-70FD-413B-BECA-F583B872FAFE@bellsouth.net>

At 7:25 PM -0500 12/22/05, 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

According to Stefan Daniels, Yes!

Particularly with the above in mind, expect them to be expensive.

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