Re: M8 comments :-)

Mike:
From the M8 tech specs in the Leica-M brochure I downloaded, older lenses are usable on the M8 without the new coding. As I understand it, that coding optimizes correction for vignetting in the camera's firmware, but that's something you could fix in Photoshop if you even needed to. The lens ID in the image file is nice, but unnecessary. The auto-coordination of the zoom reflector with focal length in your flash and auto slow-sync in automatic exposure mode are also nice - but how often do you use flash with a Leica M-camera?

Other than the Elmarit 135mm f/2.8 with the magnifying goggles, 35mm lenses aren't recommended because of their equivalent 179.6mm focal length on the M8. But people used to use 200mm Telyts with sports finder and adapter ring / spacer on M-cameras, and guesstimate focus.

I'd find one of those old 200mm sports finders and adapt it to the M8's hot shoe for a non-Elmarit 135mm. Rangefinder focusing would provide better accuracy than guessing, though not for critical close distance stuff. And you'd always get a little more than you saw in the finder, but it'd be fairly close.




At 09:37 AM 9/26/2006, you wrote: 
I greatly appreciated both Ted and Henning's comments and loom
forward Tom Abrahamsson's notes in Viewfinder, when they come out....

BUT I have a MAJOR question re the M8:

What about using older lenses. The leica folks day that the new
optimized lenses have a new electronic contact  and that 'new" Leica
M lenses can be retrofitted at a cost of $100 each. However I have
OLD M lenses, a pre aspheric 'Lux 35 i use a lot, a 90 mm tele
elmarit, a 135 and a couple, of 50 mm my favorite being the Dual
Range 50..plus some wider lenses from Voigtlander and others....

I get the IMPRESSION that these will still offer decent rendition  on
the sensor, but don't KNOW if this is the case. For me a body will be
sticker shock enough, investing in a new range of lenses will be an
awful financial burden.

Can Ted, Henning or anyone else discuss the use of early m lenses on
this latest body?

Mike

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