Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/14

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Subject: Re: 50mm focal length
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@cdsnet.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 08:36:35 -0700

At 10:27 AM 10/14/96 +0000, you wrote:
>a 50mm can easyly replace a 90mm, thanks to progress in photograpic 
>chemistry and improvements of lens design and manufacture"
>This article was written 20 years ago. 
>Lets beguin to draw our own conclusions

I think that's probably an interesting case of missing the point. I guess
now you can treat your Leica lick a Nikon F5 and use your 90mm lens as a
180? Nah, unless you can find an 180 accessory finder. The advantage, then,
I would think is that you can blow the picture up that much more. We can
put all sorts of spin on this information. Portraits aren't supposed to be
sharp, are they? <joke!>

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Eric Welch
Grants Pass, OR