Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In response to Feli's post... First - Thank God for a voice of sanity and reason.. "I agree. I have made a try of this mixed gear and I finally use Canon lenses in my EOS 1Ds and Leica lenses in my R8. Why loose AF and all features if the quality is not so far? Well I have few Leica R lenses, two zooms, and then I do not need using them in the EOS as their quality is not far behind." .. If it's far behind at all...I would guess our most fervent red dot pox infected members could not tell the difference given two prints, or on screen images to examine, one shot with the Canon glass, and one with the R glass, on the 10D or the EOS1D or 1Ds for that matter.. ;-) And second... "I know, Austin Franklin, explained clearly, it is not possible to launch an M digital but a digital rangefinder for M lenses?" I think people really have missed the point on this one. No..It is - apparently - not optically possible to simply put a sensor where the film plane is on the M and use the M lenses. But that doesn't mean that a unit couldn't be attached to the bottom and back of an M that placed the sensor at the proper distance, or that one couldn't design a new body that used M lenses and was a rangefinder camera...This will probably never happen, but someone is missing a real bet if they don't do it, given the number of Leica glass fanatics out there, as well as the number of lenses waiting to be used.. ;-) B. D. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html