[LRflex] Re: New Leica M development
- From: David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:49:40 -0700
Bill Abbott announced:
>http://www.dpreview.com/news/0606/06061001leicamdlenses.asp
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Now, that makes sense. You put an optical reader in the lens mount
of the cameras that need it, once. Carving out a slight depression
in the lens mount (with a CNC machine) and putting paint in there, is
a much lower cost option than adding ROM contacts, as done in the R series!
Older M & R cameras will work with the new lenses, and both the
Digi-M and DMR will work with older lenses. But you get the most
meta-data with the newer cameras and newer lenses. But, in the case
of the Digi-M lenses, at much lower cost to the factory!
Smart!
Thanks for posting, Bill!
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BTW: In conjunction with the LHSA convention in Wetzlar/Solms (right
after Photokina), there is to be a day-long seminar at the Leica
Akademie. Fellow LRflex'er, Alex Hurst, and myself have just had our
attendance confirmed. (It's sold out, at 20 participants.)
The fun bit is that Leica have promised each of us a pre-production
digi-M to play with, for the day! (School in the morning, picture
taking in the afternoon and comparisons of shots, over dinner.) The
Digi-M is to be introduced at Photokina and is to be in production by
late in the year. Deliveries will likely commence in January of 2007.
I, of course, will be comparing it to the DM-R. You can expect a full
report, here, shortly after we return, mid-October.
Cheers!
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David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA
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