Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe you'd better ask Austin about this. He seems to know more about what is possible, and what isn't, in this realm. I'm only a merchant, not an engineer. Kit - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jim McIntyre Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:13 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] R8/R9 Digital Back announced Ok, I'd like some clarification. The consensus seems to be the M lenses are not suited to fit a digital body because of physics, angle of incidence or whatever. Now I realize that some of this will be buried in the archive, but I'm lazy...I'd rather someone tell me again. ;-) If the M camera can mount an M lense, and focus on the film plane, then it seems logical that that same film plane can be a digital sensor. Am I in deep space on this? Kit, are you being coy or do you know something? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kit McChesney | acmefoto" <kitmc@acmefoto.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Not necessarily. --K > > At 1:58 PM -0400 6/26/03, Emanuel Lowi wrote: > >While the idea of an adapted M for digital is a no-go, what I'd like to see is a > >digital body with dimensions/size/weight very similar to an M with Leicavit, that can > >mount M lenses on the front. > > > >For me, the shape/size/weight of the M has as more to do with its virtues as a > >shooting tool than do the specifics of its shutter type, advance/rewind mechanism and > >(omigosh) focussing system. > > > >Emanuel Lowi > >Montreal > > Unfortunately, it's the lenses that are the main problem. > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html