[Leica] Re: Old Leica lenses on digital Ms

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Larry,
I thought that Olympus sold an adapter to allow the use of the old Pen F
lenses.  I know that you can use the old OM series with an adapter.  Usual
caveats about stop down metering etc.

OK, it takes two adapters.  You first go from Pen to LTM then LTM to 4/3.  I
suspect that a good machinist could make this for you cheaper.  Say Ken Ruth
over at Bald Mountain.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 6/7/06, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> When I  bought my first Leica digital, the Digilux Zoom (ne Fuji), six
> years ago, it came with a copy of Photoshop 5.0 LE with a Plug In that
> enabled me to download images to my old Mac computer. The same after
> the fact technique could be used to accommodate older Leica lenses. If
> a set of Plug Ins covering mapping of the older lenses were shipped
> along with each  camera, the user could select the appropriate
> correction. I'm sure Leica could negotiate a tie in with Adobe to
> include the software. It did once.
>
> If Leica doesn't do it, it would be a great afterrmarket product. Any
> entepreneurs out there?
>
> Incidentally Don, how do you mount Pen F lenses on a 330? I have a
> couple of old Pen F cameras with pretty good lenses. Or were you just
> pulling our chains?
>
> Larry Z
>
> Original message(s)
>
> ---------
>
> > Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 5:51:42 -0400
> > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital Leica M
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Message-ID: <2561-SnapperMsg4EA12C31C0AC523A@[70.221.18.37]>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> >
> > What Pen f lenses? Let me get this straight: the rational for a 5K
> > digital
> > M, day before yesterday, was that it would use the closets full of M
> > and
> > LTM lenses everyone's been acquiring, and produce images that will blow
> > away those prodced with Japanese junk, right? But now it turns out that
> > there will be image quality issues at the edges, even though there's
> > already a 1.3 image crop. But that's okay, because Leica will use
> > software
> > to fix that in the camera. But, in order to have that work, you're
> > going to
> > have to pay between $100 and 125 per lens to have what amounts to a
> > sticker
> > put on the mount? (AmI following this so far?) But now it turns out
> > that
> > other than the new ASPH lenses, which many people haven't invested in
> > because there are so many great, older, far less expensive lenses
> > available, there are only a tiny handful of lenses, all manufactured
> > in the
> > last 12 years, that can be retrofit. And your reaction is to make a
> > joke
> > about a far, far less expensive camera that produces terrific images
> > and
> > say ' that's okay, we can fix the images in Photoshop?'
> > This, to me, is the ultimate example of the Emperor's New Clothes: if
> > there's a Red Dot somewhere in the room, everything's okay.
> > God, if only I had the time and inclination to go through the archives
> > and
> > pull up all the anti-digital diatribes in which people trashed just
> > this
> > sort of digital fix, and other uses of PS, because it was creating
> > information where there was none, and ...
> > What a hoot.
> > Finally, no, of course I haven't used a Digital M. I am sikply
> > reacting to
> > what LEICA has just told us about it, and what Don has written.
> >
> >
> > ...... Original Message .......
> > On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 22:32:10 -0400 "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> I suspect that Leica doesn't have the lenses mapped nor wants to
> >> spend the
> >> money to do the work.  The lenses will mount and work just like they
> >> always
> >> did, but you might have to do a little PS work on the edges.  No big
> >> deal.
> >> Really no worse than using your old Pen F lenses on your 330.  :)
> >>
> >> Don
> >> don.dory@gmail.com
> >>
> >>
> >> On 6/6/06, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Fascinating to note that lenses manufactured prior to 1994, and only
> >>> a
> > few
> >>> of those, can be "upgraded." Gee, I didn't know that Leica has made
> >>> any
> >>> changes to its mount since 1954, and if it hasn't why can't every M
> >>> lens
> >>> be
> >>> upgraded? Could it be creeping Lobselescence? Not from the Leiks of
> > Leica!
> >>> ;-)
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>