Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]yes, the famous "barry lyndon" lens! you guys set me off on a long googling session which ended up with an italian website with much information chronicling the NASA-procured 1966 zeiss planar 50mm f0.7, its optical lineage, and many beautiful reproductions from lyndon created by that lens. (translation by google and at times somewhat torturous) http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.luciolepri.it%2Flc2%2Fmarcocavina%2Fomaggio_a_kubrick.htm&sl=it&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 seeing the images, i signed up for an amazon alert for the barry lyndon blu-ray. -rei Mike Durling wrote: > Kubrick had an F-0.7 http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/len/page1.htm > > Mike D > > Rei Shinozuka wrote: >> given that the 1.0 noct dates back 33 years to our bicentennial, and >> given that the 1.0 can achieve its speed without the help of aspheric >> surfaces, the next great breakthrough to get my attention will be an >> f0.71 lens, a full stop faster than the 1.0. might be a while. >> >> -rei