Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/26
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At 4:42 PM -0600 6/26/03, Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote:
>Not necessarily. --K
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Henning
>Wulff
>Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:09 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] R8/R9 Digital Back announced
>
>
>At 1:58 PM -0400 6/26/03, Emanuel Lowi wrote:
>>While the idea of an adapted M for digital is a no-go, what I'd like
>>to see is a
>>digital body with dimensions/size/weight very similar to an M with
>>Leicavit, that can
>>mount M lenses on the front.
>>
>>For me, the shape/size/weight of the M has as more to do with its virtues
>as a
>>shooting tool than do the specifics of its shutter type,
>>advance/rewind mechanism and
>>(omigosh) focussing system.
>>
>>Emanuel Lowi
>>Montreal
>
>Unfortunately, it's the lenses that are the main problem.
>
>--
> * Henning J. Wulff
If you're talking about the 35 and wider, definitely the lenses are
the problem for reasonable sized sensors; even the 50's on the M have
exit pupils that are too close to the film plane compared with SLR
lenses, and thus have edge rays that are too oblique.
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