Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2008-09-11-12:55:57 Mark Rabiner: > But the 21 and 24 asphs are not small. They are big and quite heavy. > What's needed is an F4 like the kind of stuff CV is making. Sez you. Over and over again. Because that's what you like -- teensy light pancakey little lenses for wandering around during the day. But I don't take most of my pictures outside in the daylight. At least half of my best stuff happens inside in the dim. My most-used lens these days during normal vampire hours is the 35/1.4 ASPH, and it stays stuck on f/1.4 for the most part. How useful would an f/4 lens be to me? Basically not at all. That's the difference between ISO 320 (which looks great) or 640 (which looks almost great) and trying to pull an image out of the raging snowstorm which is ISO 2500. > And ultra fast ultra wide? > Boy I sure hope not. Boy I sure hope so. Or if not ultra-wide, then wide-ish. Like 35 divided by 1.33 wide. Which would be 26mm. So a 24mm Summilux would be loverly. Or even 28mm. But 24mm would be spiffers. And even works with the M8's framelines, if I start using my contact lenses again instead of the glasses. -Jeff