Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/07

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Subject: [Leica] Digital Leica M
From: kleinp at BATTELLE.ORG (Klein, Peter A)
Date: Wed Jun 7 09:22:52 2006

I don't know that they implied needing "major surgery," B.D.  This may
simply be a marketing thing.  They can't prevent you from using
off-brand M and LTM lenses. So they produce a slogan with some built-in
FUD.  "Use our newer lenses and get better results."  How much better,
if at all?  We'll have to wait and see.  

My suspicion, based on RD-1 results I've seen, is that 50mm and longer
will be fine, 35mm will probably be fine, and anything wider may require
a little tweaking to get the edges right.  Many DSLRs have vignetting
and color fringing issues, especially with wide lenses.  If Leica can
offer some automatic correction so we have less manual tweaking to do,
more power to 'em.

The lens information can be also used for color balance.  I'm sure
you've noted, as I have, that different OM Zuikos on E-series Olympus
DSLRs give slightly different color rendition. If a Leica lens can "dial
in" its own correction, why not?
 
BTW, great article on the stem cell stuff.  It's important work, and I'm
glad Haaav'd has stepped forward.

--Peter
 
"B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:
> They have indeed not said that you can't use every Leica lens ever
made -
> they have simply implied, with this latest announcement, that only
those
> lenses that have been "converted" will produce results that don't need
major
> surgery in Photoshop. ;-)


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