Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> If you recall; the gist of Bill Rosauers conversation with Leica's new CEO > revealed that there are new surprises in store in the wide angle > department. > Canon have this 24/1.4 lens don't they? I had thought that might be a > target to reproduce, or better! But the 35 Noctilux sounds like a humdinger > of a lens! > I've no idea whether it's feasible, it would be hard to make the rear > element of an old style 35/1.4 any bigger in the mount, but maybe it's only > the front that needs enlarging To design a 35/1.0, it would require bending the light rays at an even more acute angle. Given an F number, it is typically more difficult to design one with a shorter focal length. A 35/1.0 would require glass with very high refractive index, which may or may not be available at all.