Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital Leica M
From: tripspud <tripspud@transbay.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:48:26 -0700
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Hi Feli,

      Sure, keep it the same size and weight, no plastic, solar
powered full frame.  Easier to run a mile in 1/2 minute.

Rich

Feli di Giorgio wrote:

> >
>
> I'm starting to think that Leica should just cut it's loses and make a
> Foveon chipped
> digital M, regardless of it being backwards compatible or not. They
> could keep the traditional
> shape/size and come up with a new set of lenses. There would probably
> be an enormous outcry,
> but I think they would still sell a ton of them. Initially they could
> release a fast 35/50/90 set.
>
> feli
>
> > In terms of today's technology, Leica is right and you are wrong.
> >
> > Leica lenses of 50mm and shorter have a much greater angle of
> > incidence in to corners of the frame than SLR lenses, and those are
> > the lenses of interest. Which Leica M user would accept being able to
> > Whether the Leica M is at the end of its development as a useful
> > camera, is a completely different issue.   Henning J. Wulff
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