Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/10

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Subject: [Leica] 21/1.4??
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Travel)
Date: Wed Sep 10 21:28:58 2008
References: <004901c9136c$fc5a93c0$80f510ac@chris0436b6050> <E2241B5E-EC85-49AA-8916-C4DCF69C107E@mac.com>
 
This is stupid marketing.  If you are trying to push digital cameras, ant
that is the future, ( the M8 + later models), why would you need a 24 f1.4?


Film users: DOF is negligibly different to an F2.8 for film guys, and there
is good films at ASA 800 to use for dark shooting
Digital Users: if you have an M8 ( or M9 or M10 or whatever it will be
called) all you have to do is to up the ASA .... it is a dial issue.

Ditto an M version of a 24 F1.4.

I am unimpressed from a marketing point of view.
Technologically, I think it is genius, but genius does not keep the doors
open.

Note:  the picture I saw of the 21 F1.4 looked real, but next to it was
another lens marked at full aperture F3.8 ( Not 2.8). What is that lens????

Frank Filippone
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