Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yawn...100-year old technology, 3.5 max aperture--what is the big deal? If you want a really small lens for your M8/M9, just buy the 35mm Summarit. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:33 AM, Richard Man wrote: > ... and no lugger cares? :-) > > http://www.japanexposures.com/2010/09/06/ms-optical-super-triplet-perar/ > > Only 180 will be produced. Apparently, Miyazaki san designs and makes the > lens himself. Since the beans were spilled on RFF a couple weeks ago, > boatload of Leicaphiles went to order the lens and now it is in backorder. > > I probably won't get one myself. At one point, I owned 3, count them, 3, > 50mm M lens but I always went for the same one. That's when I realized that > there is no point for me to own more than one lens of a particular focal > length (*). > > // richard "ain't no Jeff Smith" man > > (*) with the exception of the Nokton 50/1.1 and the 'lux. > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >