Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marty no dispute on the numbers from me of course. I guess that Leica Camera judged that a 70mm was more useful for the S2's intended purposes (fashion/studio)? Those probably aren't identical to those of legacy 35mm SLR design thoughts. The 70 certainly is superb on the S2 albeit the central shutter caused delays and adds quite a bit more to the costs too. I seem to remember someone from Solms candidly remarking that they wish they hadn't mentioned a 30 in their roadmap as it proved to be much tougher than they expected! Cheers Geoff *Lighting- eyes- action* http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman 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 > > >