Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You learn something new every day..... I thought it was a specialty item... looks like it wasn't, if you were a PJ...... Frank Filippone Red735i at earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of George Lottermoser Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 11:58 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] New Leica M Stuff On Jun 21, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > The white house photographers in the 80's most of them had over one > shoulder an M with a 21mm SA on the other shoulder a nikon F with a > 105 2.5 or 80 or a few others. > A super Angulon for them and many have been the reason to own and use > a Leica. The 21mm focal length has been basic for Leica use for many > many decades. Zone focusing. Highly corrected non distortion. In a > very compact unobtrusive package. > And in a Leica Solms way its back in a cutting edge version using all > Leica knows now about optics. My basic PJ kit from '69 to late '70's: M2 w/ 21 SA M3 w/ 35 cron F w/ 85 1.8 Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information