[Leica] New ZM Tessar

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> 
wrote:
> Didier.... reference is to Carl.. Carl Zeiss......
>
> Yes, I know that precise framing is not that important.. I spoke as a
> marketing person, not a user.  The installed base of Leica users is pretty
> fussy.. and the whole framing thing has been gone over several times, 
> mostly
> because of SLRs and the penchant for users to WYSIWYG... go blame Jobs and
> Wozniack....   Offering even a slight disparity makes buyers think twice..
> and thinking twice loses sales.....
>
> Offer 90mm.  Or both.  ( there, I compromised.)

I wouldn't worry much about an 85 with 90 framelines and a few Leica
users haven't either, using an 85 Sonnar (or Jupiter-9) on their
Leicas. Not many, mind you, but Zeiss is probably not aiming at the
mass-market :-)

I got burned a lot using a 40 with 35mm framelines. That never worked
for me. I frame too tightly.

Daniel