Please help me.....

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jaapv

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Now that Leica appears to be offering me a hefty discount on a lens-any lens, I am in a dilemma. I don't really need another lens- all my wants are covered. So what to do?
The most obvious course is to be a good dentist and get a Noctilux. But what for? I have a lovely Summarit for those wide-open aberrations we love and a Summilux 75 for that narrow DOF (actually a bit more narrow than the Noctilux.) So that leaves other exotics. The Summilux ASPH 50 has been praised into heaven - but a 67 mm FOV does not really appeal, and the Tri-Elmar at 50 is no slouch either, not to mention the 35 Summicron asph which leaves me wishing for nothing more. That leaves the 90 Apo Telyt 2.0. Something out of this world, I'm told. And I do find that I am starting to use my 2.8/90 on the M8, something I never did before on full-frame film M's, but then, the 2.8 is one of the better lenses in the M lineup...And what about the new short Tri=Elmar? I am not a WA person, and the thing is a brick, not to mention the finder. I would far prefer a prime 19, but will it ever appear? In Dutch we have the expression "Herenleed" which means something like " gentlemen's woes" which would describe my condition. What to do? maybe I should just sell my voucher.....
 
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Knowing ebay, you'll probably be able to sell it for twice as much as the cost of a new lens anyway :)

Ian
 
If you know a slightly bent dealer, perhaps you could trade the certificate for a really funky old pre-war 35 or 50, or whatever your favorite length is...the certificate could be worth up to $1,000 depending on the lens, so it could very well be tradeable through a dealer.

JC (slightly bent himself)
 
Jaap,

I have to agree ... the Noctilux is perhaps not so well suited for your type of photograhy.
About 50mm ........... it's my favourite focal length on the M8 .. i consider 35mm already wide-angle. 35MM Feels significant wider on the M8 than on the R-D1

How about the 90 Macro-elmar ... should suit the naturephotographer in you ... it is a very underrarted lens also for portraits.. !

I guess my voucher also goes E-bay .. ;)
 
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John Camp said:
If you know a slightly bent dealer, perhaps you could trade the certificate for a really funky old pre-war 35 or 50, or whatever your favorite length is...the certificate could be worth up to $1,000 depending on the lens, so it could very well be tradeable through a dealer.

JC (slightly bent himself)
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Good idea, but I got a beautiful LTM Summarit and it is hard to beat that....
 
The 90 Apo 2.0 is awesome! But it is a bitch to focus with the M8 when shooting open. It is brutal. Focus one area everything else looks soft. Maybe its just me. But I love that lens regardless.
 
Have I missed something? You have a voucher from Leica?

Is there REALLY a 30% discount available toward the purchase of one Leica lens for we M8 sufferers? If valid, is the discount global or country specific? (I'm in the USA.) Please verify.

If so, I'll order the new 28mm Elmarit-M in short order. Make mine black, please.

Thanks!

-g
 
The vouchers are available at the same location as the "16-bit files" claimed by Leica in their advertising, the claim that lenses are compatible with the M8 without 6-bit coding, and the claim in LFI that aperture setting data is written to the EXIF files as measured by the blue dot . Also available is a lifetime supply of magenta Kool-Aid.

Rog


Quoted from Leica News

"The lenses are compatible with the planned digital M camera even without retrofitting"


Quoted from LFI:

"...by providing the M8 with an exterior light meter, comprised of a tiny sensor installed on the top, directly beside the shutter-speed dial. This sensor measures the light independently from one inside the camera. The aperture is the simply calculated by subtracting the light travelling through the lens from the exterior lighting. Only when the camera is aware of the aperture set and the lens attached can it also know how much vignetting there will be, and correct it. The correction is executed automatically, whilst lens recognition and any related corrections can also be deactivated in the menu... "
 
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Roger Willco said:
The vouchers are available at the same location as the "16-bit files" claimed by Leica in their advertising, the claim that lenses are compatible with the M8 without 6-bit coding, and the claim in LFI that aperture setting data is written to the EXIF files as measured by the blue dot . Also available is a lifetime supply of magenta Kool-Aid.

Rog


Quoted from Leica News

"The lenses are compatible with the planned digital M camera even without retrofitting"


Quoted from LFI:

"...by providing the M8 with an exterior light meter, comprised of a tiny sensor installed on the top, directly beside the shutter-speed dial. This sensor measures the light independently from one inside the camera. The aperture is the simply calculated by subtracting the light travelling through the lens from the exterior lighting. Only when the camera is aware of the aperture set and the lens attached can it also know how much vignetting there will be, and correct it. The correction is executed automatically, whilst lens recognition and any related corrections can also be deactivated in the menu... "
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I assume you have no experience using the M8!

Because i (like many others) use mine with great succes .. lenses from 21 to 75 mm., Noctilux included .......... none of them coded and no intention to have one of my lenses coded ..... because it is NOT NECESSARY!!!
There is no vignetting to speak of to correct, not even with Noctilux at f1. with 2 ND filters in front ........... get my point:rolleyes:

This is also good news for users of non-Leica lenses, including the CV ultra-wides!
 
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Nachkebia said:
Happy crop factor 1.3 to you! :D so noct blurs images as lux does on 35mm film right? :D
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Nocti benefits from crop because closest focussing distance of 1 m for a 50mm always was a limitation for portraits ....... now you get tighter, nicer pictures :p
Hope i am not feeding a troll again here:D :D
 
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