[Leica] 16-16-15 lens comparison

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin@afirkin.com)]

Yeah, I like the wate on the M8 as well. If it has a downside, its that the 
16/19/21 ratios are a bit close: I could have been happy with a bi-elmar, 
and perhaps that would have allowed a bi-elmarit 16/21 ;-) 

My dealer was convinced by Leica that the DMR was due to be upgraded, making 
updates to our R series more efficient and "cheaper". I think he was "sucked 
right in" and I always suspected that the DMR was a temporary unit. Still 
having to now wait (even with the WATE) over 2 years for a digital body to 
use with the R glass is very frustrating and cannot auger well for the 
future of the R. Some smart lad might find a CMOS sensor which can replace 
the CCD on the DMR, it would draw less battery power and if configured with 
M8 DNG format could be 15 or 20 megapixel without increasing the size of the 
files. Should be easy: a bit of solder and a steady hand ;-)

I took the DMR to the Arctic with some trepidation: what if it failed. My 
back up was the film back, and I suppose I could have taken the R8, BUT I 
thought there would be film on the boat (there was 12 months ago), but 12 
months is a long time in the new photography/computer world and the company 
were selling memory cards and cd's not film, so my back up reverted to 
Helens E500. I bought her an E510 now so I can at least have the E500 to act 
as back up to the DMR should I travel with it again. 

OH back up for the M8: with the price going up perhaps I should rush out and 
get one soon: especially as the Dollar here in OZ is strong BUT if I buy a 
back up M8, I will find it hard to buy an R10 M9, so I will have to ride 
naked sidesaddle and just hope the wonderful electronics only fail at 
appropriate times. So far the DMR has had to go home to Germany when I 
wanted to travel with the M8 and the M8 has been back twice during the times 
I wanted to use the DMR, so they have at least been behaving themselves ;-)

Cheers


--- len-1@comcast.net wrote:

From: Leonard Taupier <len-1@comcast.net>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] 16-16-15 lens comparison
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 22:23:49 -0500

Alastair,

I have wanted the DMR for some time. When I bought my R8 the intent  
was to get a DMR to go with it. I'm afraid I waited too long. Since a  
lot of my shooting is either birding or macro, like flowers, The long  
Telyts and the APO 100mm macro Elmarit on a 20D worked just fine.    
But I found my wide angle shots on a 1.5 or 1.6 crop body lacking. So  
I went to the canon 5D which I consider a very capable camera. Leica  
wide angle lenses don't work too well if at all on Canon bodies.  
Nikon lens are hard to focus without a focus confirmation adapter. I  
don't like the Canon wides. So I'll just wait for the D3. Fortunately  
the WATE on the M8 works just fine.

Len