[Leica] 75 'cron

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

Considering the escapist mentality and the very long planning delays of 
Solms on one side, and the quick-stepping digital market on the other side, 
I cannot imagine they have been planning this lens in relationship to a 
digital sensor crop factor. I guess they're just mathematically fulfilling 
their lens lineup which has a Summilux, a Summicron and an Elmar on most 
focal lenghts except the 75mm. So we still miss a 2.8/75 collapsible Elmar 
:-)

The crop factors will change with each generation. Even if there will be, 
hopefully next year, a digital M with that rumoured 1.37 factor, the 
overnext one, if there is, will have a fullframe sensor like Canon has it 
already now - an all this calculations with cropfactors will be a quickly 
forgotten phenomenon of the analog-to-digital-switcher era. I'm not shure 
if Leica will survive that.

By the way, for me, the 75mm focal length works very well. But I prefer the 
1.4 to the 2.0 as I use this lens especially for shooting in small music 
clubs with low light.

Didier

>BUT lets assume they are thinking down the road: 75 x 1.37 = 102.75 Rumor 
>has it that the digital M will not be full frame, but will have a 1.37 mag 
>factor like the R-Module.
>feli
>
>...it's too long to be a 50 and not long enough to be a 90 - which is to 
>say, a short tele.