Digital Leica M8 / M8.2 / M9 / M-E /Mono / M10 aka "M"Discussions about the Leica M8 /M 8.2 / M9 / M9-P/ M-E / M Monochrom / M10 aka "M": Leica digital M mount rangefinder cameras. Naming the new digital M the "Leica M" is VERY unfortunate as it will only confuse newbies with other Leica M cameras of the the past. Happily there is room for confusion with only the past 59 years of Leica M production ... since Leica introduced the Leica M system in 1953. All Hail for the Leica Marketing Department learning Leica M history!
I came across this on Leica Users Forum. It seems someone hacked an EOS 5D Mark 2 to take Leica M lenses.
You have to give whoever did this credit. hell, they have more creativity than the usual bunch of camera makers. Maybe this is a trend where people recycle cameras and make what they really want instead of waiting for years (life is too short) for camera makers to come up with what they really want.
I would love to try this hacked Canon with a Noctilux!!!!
I would love to see photos taken with this thing!!!
Okay this seems absolutely pointless. There's no mirror, so the viewfinder isn't going to show anything. How can you shoot with a noctilux without some kind of usable rangefinder or reflex viewfinder? It's basically a digital MD-1 that uses batteries and is like five times the size.
I mean, they might as well have done it with a 5D mark i, it would have saved them a grand. Instead, they took a camera I could have used (!) and turned it into a brick!
Edit: okayyy so you could use the LCD screen. I forgot about that. They could've used a Sony NEX and stuck with the crop factor and saved a ton of $$ though. Doesn't Live View have a huge delay with DSLR's though? It does with my D300.
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And they're all really good. Some are equal and possibly even better than the equivalent leicas... So I have to wonder why? Admittedly it got my attention though!
This excercise is mildly interesting as technical experiment, but other than that it's just utterly useless and technically inferior to the real alternatives mentioned above.
//Juha
Ps. for solutio 1) use the Leitax adapters.. several choices for digital body then
I think it is fantastic with these people who can see beyond, what we others can´t. They seem to think that nothing is impossible. What would the world be without these innovators. That EOS camera might put the M9 back to stonetime.
I think it is fantastic with these people who can see beyond, what we others can´t. They seem to think that nothing is impossible. What would the world be without these innovators. That EOS camera might put the M9 back to stonetime.
I don't consider someone who cuts off the front of a camera an "innovator," it seems more like "well I can't afford an M9 so I'll just hack away at this $2000 camera until it fits my other lenses." I would consider someone who designs a camera to fill such a niche an innovator (for example, this new fuji X100 if it lives up to the hype). I can see beyond...the BS what can they do with those amazing leica m lenses that they REALLY couldn't do with their lowly EOS L lenses? It's a fantastic project for sure, but it's not like their photographs are tremendously improving because they rubbed down the front of a camera.
I don't consider someone who cuts off the front of a camera an "innovator," it seems more like "well I can't afford an M9 so I'll just hack away at this $2000 camera until it fits my other lenses." I would consider someone who designs a camera to fill such a niche an innovator (for example, this new fuji X100 if it lives up to the hype). I can see beyond...the BS what can they do with those amazing leica m lenses that they REALLY couldn't do with their lowly EOS L lenses? It's a fantastic project for sure, but it's not like their photographs are tremendously improving because they rubbed down the front of a camera.
He's shooting a Noctilux and has two 5D II. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that he can't afford an M9. A 21 'lux is pictured too, my guess is that this guy isn't short on money.
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My first reaction was that this person has a lot more money than sense. However, I tend to agree - innovation sees more failures than successes. Sometimes seemingly fruitless endeavors must still be explored. So more power to him.
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what can they do with those amazing leica m lenses that they REALLY couldn't do with their lowly EOS L lenses? It's a fantastic project for sure, but it's not like their photographs are tremendously improving because they rubbed down the front of a camera.
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