Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>And, assuming that this isn't all a hoax - and that photo sure looks like a >cut-and-paste job to me! - there comes the big question - why f4 lenses? Why f/4? These lenses are projecting an image circle large enough to comfortably cover a medium format sized 65mm wide negative - and according to the Hasselblad press release, compact optics was a design objective. Anything much faster would've been much larger, and as Leica M users know, when the lens barrel grows too stout, a sizeable slice of the image is no longer visible through the finder. I'm curious to see wider-angle lenses developed for this new format. So far, everything I've seen covering that size (width) negative that was much shorter than 45mm suffered from enough of a vignetting problem to warrant use of a graduated ND filter. Regards, M.Phillips