I think Leica has implied that the close placement of the lens to the
sensor problems have been solved with their new sensor design for the M
digital. I suspect it is actually a better microlens system on top of
the sensor.
The wide angle lens problem is true of any digital camera system. Pay
for very expensive exotic lenses to get very ordinary wide angle
performance. Only the the companies that have designed new wide angle
lenses for the digital sensors have really dealt with it, like Olympus
and Nikon.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Nov 29, 2004, at 12:28 PM, Skip Williams wrote:
> Wide angle lenses - no great options, as all RF designs lower than
> 28mm set very close to the film plane, genering vignetting on the
> sensor. A 21 becomes an effective 32mm lens. And the only 21's are
> Leica's Elmarit, CV 21/4, and the new Zeiss Biogon (+ discontinued
> Kobalux 21/2.8). The CV is slow for indoors, the others are
> expensive. And wider is even more of a problem, with only the CV
> 15/4.5 and new Zeiss, $3800 15/2.8 available to equal a 23mm lens.
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