RE: [Leica] Re: Digital M

["Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>]

For me, the first problem with a 1.3-1.6 multiplier is 
that I will lose my fast lenses in the 35mm-50mm range, 
which is the range I use fast lenses the most.

The 2nd problem is that it takes me time to
familiarize myself with the framing for each focal length.
If truth be known, I can compose and shoot fast only with 
the 50mm, with the 35mm my second best.  With my other 
lenses (24mm, 28mm, 75mm, and 90mm), I am not as familiar, 
and therefore take more time to compose.   Same is true with 
my EOS stuff.  It took me a good part of a year to shoot 
well enough with the Canon 50mm.  There also, I lost my 
fast normal prime;  in the Canon EOS line the 50mm f1.4 
costs less $300; the 35mm f1.4 costs almost 4 times that.

Anyway, that won't stop me from buying a digital Leica M if
it turns out to be a good product; I can learn to put up with
some limitations (I love the Minilux, after all);  I just have
to wait and see what those limitations will be, as I bet there
will be a few.  We'll see.

- - Phong


B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
> Just a couple brief things -
> I don't think anyone is happy with 1.5 - or 1.3 for that matter - Mark,
> they're just stuck with it. ;-) I want to use my lenses at the focal
> length they were designed as, not at some compromise focal length.
> ...
> A digital M could probably make it with a multipication factor, but it
> would hardly be ideal.

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