[Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V17 #3

[Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3@csd.uwm.edu>]

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LarryZ wrote:

<if Nikon and
<Canon can sell high quality 50mm F1.8 or F2.0 lenses for approximately $100
<then the ten times greater price of a similar Leica lens represents a
<marketing decision rather than the actual cost basis.
<LarryZ



I remember an article by Arthur Kramer in Camera 35 magazine from about
1958 wherein he explained that E. Leitz took the care(and expense) to make
lens focusing helixes on various pitches to match the exact focal length of
each individual lens.  I.E.,50.2mm would get one pitch, 49.8 another.
Kramer wrote that Leitz was probably the only one going to this trouble.
Who knows if they still do this?

And in response to the talk of putting Leica lenses on a digital camera, I
love Leica RFs foremost because of the bodies.  The lenses are great, but
no other camera feels so intuitive and pleasant to use.  Unless it felt
exactly the same as my M3, I don't think I'd like to use anything else for
my personal work.  And even then I probably would not care for it since I
don't like cameras that are battery dependant.  I like having everything
mechanical.

One other tip.  I use Scotch brand Paper tape for bulk loading. 3/4" for
attaching the film, and 1" for labelling the outside of the film can.  I
write on this with a Sanford Ultra Fine Sharpie.


Alan Magayne-Roshak