[LRflex] Re: New Leica M development
- From: Javier Perez <summarex@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:27:01 -0700 (PDT)
Well OK they will be coding them, but apparently only
with focal length info. No aperture or focus info. It
means they won't be able to do DOF processing at least
not on converted lenses or anything currently
manufactured. I think I'll stick with Eoses R and
current Ms. As for digital, didn't Epson come out with
a converted Bessa a couple of years ago? Leitz would
need to start from the ground up for Their ne digitals
using an R flange and back focus with lenses that
could be used on eithe SLR or RF bodies. I hope this
is a stop gap measure.
Javier
--- "Dr. Puritz" <drpuritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A nice concept David, but how about those of us who
> might consider the new
> digital M, but will have to retrofit some ( or many
> ) of our precious lenses
> in order to take advantage of all of the features of
> the new camera? Did I
> see a price of about 95 Euros per lens to retro fit?
> So....if one has a
> full selection of the M lenses from the past 10
> years or so one might expect
> to spend many hundreds of "extra" dollars in order
> to "fully" use the M
> lenses on the new camera. I think a better
> approach might be to have at
> least one or two lenses retrofitted without extra
> charge with the purchase
> of a new digital M body.
>
> One wonders if the Zeiss and/or Cosina lenses can be
> retrofitted as well.
>
> Rumors concerning the possible price of the digital
> M body were extant at
> the PMA in Orlando, and the "projected" range seemed
> to be from $4200 to
> about $5,000. Add in the retrofit, or some new M
> lenses.... one can see that
> the dollars add up very, very quickly.
>
> Elliot
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Young" <telyt@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 11:49 AM
> Subject: [LRflex] Re: New Leica M development
>
>
> > Bill Abbott announced:
> >
>
>>http://www.dpreview.com/news/0606/06061001leicamdlenses.asp
> >
> > ---
> >
> > 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!
> >
> > ---
> >
> > 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!
> > ---
> >
> > David Young,
> > Logan Lake, CANADA
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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