[Leica] Slow CV 20mm for Pentax Nikon

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

My thoughts are that no you'd not need a film body to exploit a classic
21mm's full potential you'd need a 24x36mm format digital sensor.
And that's going to come because by this time Leica knows that despite
whatever obstacles its sink or swim on that issue.
A full frame M body has got to be in the works.
They are coming out with all kinds of astronomically priced 24x36mm format
glass for the incredibly shrinking film population.
And the digital people shooting through the center of it.
It leaves one aghast at this wasted potential placed before the market.
A year ago they could be thinking "make the glass enticing enough and
they'll go back to using film" but by now I'm guessing they know differently
for sure..
The handwriting is on the wall; with respect to people on the list who are
enjoying shooting cropped format with their M8's people out there now just
want to be able to shoot at ISO 32,000 at a drop of a hat with no noise
problem. That's what everyone's doing now. Its not going to happen with half
frame to the effect format.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Christopher Birchenhall <crbirchenhall at googlemail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 00:16:45 +0100
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Slow CV 20mm for Pentax Nikon
> 
> Mark
> 
> I have just read the hard copy of this review; looks a promising
> update on my small Nikon 20mm f4. Only problem is it doesn't have
> bunny ears and will not fully integrate with my Nikkormat !!  :-)
> 
> As to small 21mm lenses I love the tiny Zeiss f4.5 but you need a film
> body to fully exploit it's  potential, in my case that is now reduced
> to my M3.
> 
> Chris