Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, 55mm and 57mm lenses used to be called and sold as 'normal' lenses for 35mm SLR's in the 60's. The S2's 70 is right in line with those. 'Normal' is about as rigidly defined as a 'glass' of beer, except with beer you mostly get less than anticipated and with lenses you usually get more (focal length) than anticipated. Henning On 2011-10-27, at 7:45 PM, Marty Deveney wrote: > It has an 84?, 74?, 53? (diagonal, horizontal, vertical) angle of > view, the same as a 24 mm lens on a 24x36mm frame. > > The roadmapped but unannounced 24/2.8 for the S2 will be very interesting. > > I agree that the 70 is far from normal. > > Marty > > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: >> Normal for the S2 format by the way is 54mm's. >> Leica is calling their "normal' a 70 which makes you think the sensor is >> that big; it ain't. >> You cant blame them for NOT coming out with a 55mm lens and calling it a >> normal nobody would think it was medium format. Yet it really is. >> The problem is what we think a 35mm full frame or film is is not. >> Its not 50. Its really 43. >> And 55 really is a full jump up from 43. >> But 55 from 50 is negligible. >> >> I just say that because 30 is way wider than a 70. Which makes you think >> its >> super wide. >> But 30 is so than from a 55. >> Perhaps someone can do a comparative angle of view to see how that >> compares >> to what we are familiar with in 35mm photography. >> >> -- >> Mark R. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >>> From: Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:27:40 +0100 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: [Leica] New S lens >>> >>> This has just been posted on the BJP site: >>> >>> http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2120595/leica-un >>> veils-30mm-lens-syte >>> >>> Gerry >>> >>> Gerry Walden LRPS >>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 (Office) >>> +44 (0)797 287 7932 (Mobile) >>> Web: www.gwpics.com >>> Blog: www.gerrywalden.wordpress.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Henning Wulff henningw at archiphoto.com