[Leica] Chatter about digital M lenses

[dnygr at cshore.com (dnygr)]

A lot of speculation in the absence of hard facts adds up to little.


What does Leica mean by "converted?" 

A dealer told me that one can have one's lenses "converted" so that the 
f-stop will be recorded and the user can access this information. Neither he 
nor I thought much of this.

We'll have to see what they mean. And then we'll have to see if converted 
actually means anything. Will it be the same as putting "new, improved" on a 
package, that is, will it simply be empty rhetoric.

I'm sure they will come out with a line of "digital lenses," but whether 
that will be anything better than what they've produced to date, will have 
to be studied.

And if it is better, will it be better enough to warrant buying. One can buy 
the new lenes for film. They are better than the old ones, but the old ones 
are still pretty darn good.

So we'll have to see. Until we have it in our hands, we are just "shooting 
the breeze." There's a crasser way of saying this, but I'll refrain from 
that.

Doug