Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Didier, That rumor has been circulating for a while. I believe that there is some truth to the use of information to tell the camera about the lens, I also believe that the camera will use normal M mount lenses. I would expect some loss of quality especially with wider angle lense and especially as regards corner performance. This is speculation on my part, but the concept of using microlenses on the chip to correct for wide angle vignetting just doesn't hold up for all the lenses made. What will hold up is mapping a lens and then adjusting the output of the sensor based on that information. For all that Leica does and doesn't do, abandoning eighty years of product doesn't sound like the company we all love to bash. In other words, you are exactly correct, the only reason to own a dM is because of all the lenses that will work on it that are presently owned. Well, there is another reason, some us just prefer rangefinders for some work. There is the possibility that the ZI product will also introduce a digital variant that uses M mount lenses. We will know far more in late September. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 6/3/06, Didier Ludwig <rangefinder@screengang.com> wrote: > > I have just read in another list, from a quite reliable source not > completely unknown on the LUG, that Leica plans to modify the M-mount > for the digital M: > > >The Leica M digital will have a modified M-mount > >with a bar code which tells the camera the focal length. > >The correct frameline will then be electronically changed. > >While Leica will sell kits at about $125 each to update Leica > >M lenses to the M digital it remains to be seen if those kits can > >be used on non Leica made lenses. > > My personal comment: The only reason to buy such a (anyway > overpriced) camera is when one has a closet full of M and LTM lenses. > If one needs to "upgrade" every lens for $125 to make it functional > on the digital M (and maybe even non-functional on the film bodies), > he might as well change the system. Leica - one step forward, two > steps backwards. > > Didier > > ps: the R-D1 is getting more and more interesting for me - it takes > M-mount lenses! > ;-) > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >