[Leica] Old lenses and M8

[sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)]

I am with Frank and Nathan; unfortunately I was not on the LUG last early 
spring and otherwise out of touch with the Leica community, thus unaware 
that an M9 was impending if not imminent. So I finally succumbed to digital 
and bought a new M8.2. Would I rather have a full-frame sensor? of course. 
Will the M8-8.2 sensor produce outstanding images? of course. Will I see the 
difference on a computer screen? unlikely. How about in a print? perhaps if 
the enlargement is 15-20X. Good friend Mark R. wants me to sell my M8.2 at a 
huge loss and spend $8,000. on a box that will do very little for me other 
than return my 24mm to a 24mm frame, my 35 to 35 and my 50 to Summicron 50. 
Which will also deprive me of a rangefinder 180mm focal length lens (135/2,8 
Elmarit) that I find enormously useful and re-introduce a scratch-able 
screen (no sapphire on the M9) that I find potentially quite un-useful.

If I hadn't bought the M8.2, would I buy an M9? Dunno. I might very well 
have decided that a demo M8.2 at a savings of $4-5,000. made that a very 
attractive decision.

just my 2c.

Seth

> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:30:43 +0100
> From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>
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> Me too, but, unlike Mark, for me a 35mm is wide angle and the 59 and
> 75 on the M8 give very suitable fields of view for me. The M8 has few
> drawbacks in this regard as I have the lenses and IR filters now. I
> did get a WATE which I use in town on holiday with the M8. I will be
> interested to see how I get on with it when (if!) I ever get a M9.
>
> It rather reminds me of being in my local dealers when one of his
> customers returned the freshly released and hard-to-get-hold-of Canon
> 5D. He found the quality not as good as he was used to with his APS
> sensor camera (cheaper lenses certainly were shown up as such) and
> found the field of view less to his liking. I was a bit surprised to
> find the sales assistant in the dealer completely agreeing. The
> customer happily went back to a newer APS sensor body and the smaller
> lenses suitable for it.
> FD
>