Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/11

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Subject: [Leica] RD-1 users: Light loss with fast lenses?
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)
Date: Fri Mar 11 17:16:02 2005
References: <200503111854.j2BIor66022975@server1.waverley.reid.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20050311121847.00a32a30@pop.2alpha.net>
 
Perhaps the technical reason is simply that 1.4 lens are difficult to get 
right, period.

At 01:36 PM 3/11/2005, Peter Klein wrote:

>Thanks, Henning and B.D.  I find it interesting that the fastest lenses 
>specifically designed for DSLRs so far have been f/2, and most are 
>slower.  Why?  Is it just marketing--they guys with spreadsheets have 
>decided that "the public" wants mostly slow zooms, plus or two f/2 or 2.8 
>macros? Or are there some genuine technical reasons why lenses faster than 
>f/2 are a problem for digital as things stand now?

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please 
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