Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]He designed more than one large gun for Iraq but died of lead poisoning before it was assembled. The W.W.I German Paris gun was quite the technical marvel but took considerable resources to maintain, move and fire (reportedly the equivalent of a full battalion). Krup built big guns for Germany in W.W.II, but these also drained off valuable manpower. Regards, Greg Jerry Lehrer wrote: >Mark Evans > >Didn't Gerald Bull design such a cannon for Iraq? > >Jerry > >Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > >>Steve Unsworth wrote: >> >> >>>Jerry >>> >>>A f1.4 90mm would have close to zero depth of field wide open, especially >>>close up. It's a question of focussing accuracy as anyone who's ever used a >>>Nocti of a 75mm Summilux at f1/f1.4 will know. >>> >>>Steve >>> >>> >>> >>It would be the mother of all lenses. IT world have to be permanently >>aimed at Paris or back at Berlin and hope for no earth tremors. >>It would become part of the landscape or dirt-scape. The Guns of August >>Tom Swift And His Giant Cannon >>http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/youth/tomswift/TomSwiftAndHisGiantCannon/chap3.html >> >>That's why they made it a 75. It would make the Noct look like an >>enlarger lens. >> >>Mark Rabiner >> >>Portland, Oregon USA >>http://www.rabinergroup.com >> >>But a 2 would placate the 1.4 dudes who don't want it touched and also >>please the others who don't value compactness and just want to blaze >>away. I say it's a Leica it should fit in your pocket. >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >> > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html