Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/22

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Subject: [Leica] Official picture of digital-M?
From: rdcb37 at dodo.com.au (Rick Dykstra)
Date: Thu Dec 22 14:16:33 2005
References: <43965AF900082CBD@mssbzhh-int.msg.bluewin.ch>

So this way I can buy a DM and get a 50 1.4 Aspherical for free!  My  
35 1.4 Asph becomes a 50 1.4 Asph???!!!

Never liked those distorted fat heads from the wides anyway.

Rick.


On 23/12/2005, at 8:51 AM, pwerner@bluewin.ch wrote:

> Tina,
>
> The article in the German edition of LFI seems clearer: Leica is  
> going to
> present new wide-angle lenses at the same time as the Digital M.  
> The reason
> is that the current lenses will become "longer" on the DM due to  
> the crop
> factor. The 21 behaves like a 28 and the 28 like a 35. Therefore  
> there will
> be the need for new, shorter (wider) lenses to fill the gap. These  
> lenses
> will be usable on both the Digital M and the film M bodies.
>
> Peter
>
>> -- Original-Nachricht --
>> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:32:53 -0500
>> From: Tina Manley <images@infoave.net>
>> Subject: RE: [Leica] Official picture of digital-M?
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>
>>
>> It says that "The Digital M will be introduced as a complete package
>> that will include new wide-angle lenses."  I suppose that means that
>> our current M lenses won't work with the digital camera?  That would
>> defeat the whole purpose to me.
>>
>> Tina
>>
>>
>> At 04:23 PM 12/22/2005, you wrote:
>>> Albert Wang wrote:
>>>>  Looks like the upcoming issue of LFI (Jan.  2006) includes a  
>>>> "mock-up"
>>>>  picture of the new digital M. It says M7  Digital
>>>>  but hopefully they will rename it to M-Digital 1 or MD1 which
>>>>  would be the start of a new generation.
>>>
>>> You can see it here, and read the propaganda/marketing too:
>>> http://www.lfi-online.de/ceemes/show.php?lfi_index_english
>>>
>>>
>>> - Phong
>>>
>>>
>>>
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