Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]the name has me a bit muddled. i have an old summarit, a 1.5 LTM. does the summarit name signify anything technical with respect to the design of new line of lenses or is it a mainly a marketing name for the line? -rei On Aug04 16:46, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > The way I've see it its a 2.8 not a 2. > An Elmarit not an Summicron. So its the slow economy offering again the > faster premium offering. > > In the Leica catalogs of pervious era's a couple of which I just landed > from > the Leica Gallery in Greenwich Village and have next to my bed and at night > and put under my pillow when I sleep at hopefully night you see the lens > offerings. > And there are different price points built into the fact that there is a > slow medium and fast offering of each. Or at least a slow then a fast. > The slow lens is the in effect economy line and the fast one the premium > one. > And that was before most of the names strictly meant a certain f stop. > Now we have a Summarit line. And as its modern times that's gong to mean > its > going to be an f 2.5 line with no deviations from that f stop. > But as its the weekend the 2.5 line is under track maintenance and you need > to take the bus. Till 12:01 AM Monday. Whatever that means. > But its not that easy as a 2.5 50 is a medium speed lens while a 2.5 90 is > on the fast side. As would be a wide wide angle. The extra examples being a > 2.5 would make a very high end hunk of glass for a 300mm; > or 15 mm lens. > > I just don't want them to forget the slow end. > The Local. For us every day Joes. And Josephine's. > Who need to stop and smell the roses. > > After all you don't have to look through the darned thing. > You look through the little window on the side. > Things are not brighter and pop into focus better when they are faster > glass. > In the dominate SLR world that is the real lure of speed. > > > Faster also means > bigger heavier and off balance more expensive and more prone to flare. > And longer before I can save up and get it. > > > Mark William Rabiner > Harlem, NY > > rabinergroup.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey