Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/17

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Subject: [Leica] Digital Leica M
From: pwerner at bluewin.ch (pwerner@bluewin.ch)
Date: Sat Jun 17 04:44:17 2006

Frank,

A proof to the contrary is given by the R (film) lenses that give excellent
results on the DMR.

What remains to be seen is how the extreme wide angles perform on the M8,
as on the M series these are not retrofocus constructions.

Peter

>-- Original-Nachricht --
>From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital Leica M
>Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:29:41 +0100
>To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>
>
>You are wrong here Richard, there is a plenty of hard information  
>that M lenses are unsuited to digital sensors. That is what Leica  
>said officially themselves until the Epson RD1 showed they were not  
>too bad and customer pressure lead to them going ahead, by all  
>accounts against their better judgement. I believe that the hurried  
>RD1 which has loads of shortcomings still is fun to use. Probably  
>Leica will not rush it and use better technology to ameliorate the  
>problems but there still is hard data that the M lenses will not be  
>as good on digital than film. The first statement regarding their  
>unsuitability came from Leica themselves and the subsequent  
>discussion is presumably in the archives.
>Frank
>
>On 17 Jun, 2006, at 01:37, Richard wrote:
>
>> #%$^%! Sorry, this post really personifies the worst of the  
>> "Speculate To DEATH" nature of the LUG. With no hard data, now  
>> people are saying that the Leica lens will be crap on the Digital  
>> M. WTF?
>>
>> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly,  
>> please use richard at imagecraft.com)
>>
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Replies: Reply from leicaluvr at comcast.net (Tom Schofield) ([Leica] Digital Leica M)
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