Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Noctilux pipe dream
From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:59:46 +0200

From: Ken Iisaka <kiisaka@ibm.net>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 08:12
Subject: Re: [Leica] Noctilux pipe dream


> An 50mm lens with an F number of 1 (Noctilux!) is supposed
> to have a entrance pupil diameter of  52.36 mm.

I looked at the Noctilux at the Leica store and they let me take two shots with
it (not yet developed).  What I found amusing was holding the lens up with the
aperture set to 1.0:  wide open like that, it looks like an empty cylinder with
a piece of glass in it!  On every other lens, you always see part of the lens
around the perimenter when you look through it, even wide open--but on this
lens, there's nothing!

  -- Anthony