Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]there is due to be a tiny 24mm f3.8 too. On 11 Sep, 2008, at 05:28, Frank Travel wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information