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vikasmg · 11/18/06, 08:05 PM

The same text below was posted on dpreview.com - if you've read or answered that message you may want to ignore this:

It had to happen. I'm travelling and my dealer calls on my mobile phone to say my M8 fix is ready! Having pushed a couple of people off my meeting list I'll be back home on Tuesday, a couple of hours earlier than planned and will be at the door when the camera store opens.

It's only now that an obvious issue strikes me: Lateley I've found that my most frequently used lens on the M6 is 28mm and to get the same field of view on an M8 I'll have to - sooner or later - buy a 21mm. Two questions:

1. Hoping to avoid "only a Leica is a Leica" type of comment, is it silly to consider a Zeiss 21mm ragther than Leica's Elmarit. Is there an objective or subjective difference in the quality of images I would get?

2. Before the M8 was announced I'd been wondering about using a 24mm. Are there any rumours of a wider-than-21 prime lens from Leica? If there are samples of the Zeiss 15mm, could someone point me to any images that may have been posted?

TIA

11/18/06, 08:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
vikasmg Erfahrener Benutzer Join Date: 08/27/05 Location: Singapore Posts: 113	Wide Angles on an M8 The same text below was posted on dpreview.com - if you've read or answered that message you may want to ignore this: It had to happen. I'm travelling and my dealer calls on my mobile phone to say my M8 fix is ready! Having pushed a couple of people off my meeting list I'll be back home on Tuesday, a couple of hours earlier than planned and will be at the door when the camera store opens. It's only now that an obvious issue strikes me: Lateley I've found that my most frequently used lens on the M6 is 28mm and to get the same field of view on an M8 I'll have to - sooner or later - buy a 21mm. Two questions: 1. Hoping to avoid "only a Leica is a Leica" type of comment, is it silly to consider a Zeiss 21mm ragther than Leica's Elmarit. Is there an objective or subjective difference in the quality of images I would get? 2. Before the M8 was announced I'd been wondering about using a 24mm. Are there any rumours of a wider-than-21 prime lens from Leica? If there are samples of the Zeiss 15mm, could someone point me to any images that may have been posted? TIA