Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 180 2.8 R-lens - any experiences?
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 23:51:10 -0600

At 10:18 PM 1/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-01-24 21:43:31 EST, you write:
>
><< By the  way, Canon's is still a 280. >>
>
>Canon presently makes a 300 f4, 300 f4 IS and a 300 f2.8.  They do not
>presently make a 280 lens.

They call the 300 2.8 a 300, but it is in acutality a 280mm lens. Lots of
lenses are different focal lengths than what the number engraved on the
barrel says. Kind of like rounding up to make it sound like the competition. 

Most 300 2.8s are in fact 280mm lenses. Only the AF-S version of the Nikon
is truly a 300mm 2.8 lens in the Nikon line since way back.
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's intolerance.