Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Damian, I am with you. I thought I missed a message that explained it all. Steve At 08:07 PM 2/1/98 -0800, you wrote: > >I have been trying to follow this thread hoping that ultimately I will be >educated as to what is and what is not a retro focus lens. Beleive me, I >have tried to educate myself on this question and I can find no references >which begin with some sort of definition of terms i.e., what is a retro >focus lens. If not the physics, perhaps a rundown of lenses which are >retro focus and a few which are not. > >I'm similarly mystified by Dick Gilcreasts references to 'curved field >lenses" vis-a-vis "flat field lenses" in his current article in the >Viewfinder on the 35mm f3.5 Elmar. Is this topic somehow related to >retrofocus lens design? > >Sorry to hold the class back, but I'm lost. > > >Yrs >Damian > > >