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Subject: [Leica] Leica Summilux-CT lenses
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:31:38 +0930
References: <5E6D3335-331F-48B6-B092-F6EB47DA3485@charter.net> <u2jee8fa51c1004092005t9e0874ar1f13e54fab64e805@mail.gmail.com> <010401cad862$b1fe7b40$15fb71c0$@net> <j2nee8fa51c1004092335zd094faffn88ca89c004285762@mail.gmail.com> <4BC120DA.7030904@cox.net>

That makes sense; I guess they still won't have a large enough image
circle to cover 24x35 mm.

Marty

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Mike Durling <durling at cox.net> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure these are made for 35mm cine. ?18mm isn't a wide on 16 but
> ok for 35. ?These are mostly going to be used on large-sensor digital 
> cinema
> cameras like the Red One and the newer Arri products. ?They can be used 
> with
> optical adapters on smaller sensor video cameras. ?They should cover 4/3
> nicely, and probably APS-C.
>
> They look to be competing head to head with Zeiss primes which make Leica
> still lenses look cheap.
>
> Mike D
>
> Marty Deveney wrote:
>>
>> The PL Mount is for movie cameras:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL_mount and can be 16 or 35 mm, but I am
>> pretty sure that with these focal lengths they are for 16 mm and
>> equivalently sized digital movie camera sensors.
>>
>> Marty
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at 
>> earthlink.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I am not sure what these fit on.. movie cameras? ?Film? ?Or video
>>> cameras?
>>> In any event, a nice set of 10 products, in a specialized field, where
>>> price
>>> is no object to quality..... ?a win for Leica....
>>>
>>> I wondered why they said they had designed something like 14 lenses.....
>>> ?I
>>> could not figure out where they were going...
>>>
>>> Frank Filippone
>>> red735i at earthlink.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Replies: Reply from durling at cox.net (Mike Durling) ([Leica] Leica Summilux-CT lenses)
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Message from benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney) ([Leica] Leica Summilux-CT lenses)
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