Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:27 PM 5/29/2007, you wrote: >Glass remains my priority which raises another problem. My >M lenses are geared to film cameras. I am all too aware I will need to >rebuild my kit to reproduce the equivalent mix on a M8 and that is likely to >involve new Leica lenses at full cost - I tend to buy second hand at the >moment. Am I wrong on that front? > >Chris Why in the world would you need to rebuild your kit for digital? I'm using all of my M lenses very happily on the M8 with no problems. I know I could have them keycoded so they will transmit file info to digital file, but why? I didn't need to know that for film and I don't for digital. As far as making them adaptable to the IR filters, I'm not worried about that. I have had 4 photos out of several hundred thousand that were affected by the magenta shift. I'm not photographing still lifes or life style for a catalog that needs exact reproduction of colors. I'm looking for emotion and interaction between people and that translates through all of the old Leica M lenses right into the M8. Tina Tina Manley ASMP, NPPA, EP, PI http://www.tinamanley.com