Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]FWIW - For Wuv in Wolverine? Fortune Wibble Indigenous WhoaWow? FWIW, some TLA do 5AV3 0N TY41N5 <0RR3<7LY On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>wrote: > Yep! Had mine 18 months or so. I never had the previous model to compare > though. > It is demonstrable that the new design has less focus shift. Whether you > notice in practical use is dependant on how you use the lenses of course. > Oh and it costs a young fortune. Surprise surprise. For whatever it's worth > they sell on eBay here for at least 20% more than the new list price! > Very difficult to find, but that might describe most of the lenses. > > Notice that I did not type FWIW as that may trip certain acronym > hypersensitive reactions ;-) > > Cheers, > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > > On 8 March 2012 20:14, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > > > Never mind the name game - does any lugger have this lens and show that > it > > is better than the V1 ASPH? The FLoatingElementGroup supposes to help > with > > focus shift - not that I notice any with my V1 - but well, what do real > > shooters say? > > > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:05 AM, John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz > > >wrote: > > > > > Google "35mm Summilux FLE" gets me 466,000 hits with Mr Rockwell at the > > > top.... > > > > > > john > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > > Welli'd replied that the term FLE Is not used on the box but I'm also > > going > > > to say its not used very often at all to describe the lens by people on > > > chatgroups NOT on the box. Easy enough to check just search engines for > > > 35mm > > > Summilux FLE and see how many hits you get. > > > > > > > > > > > Shorthand for people to know the difference in model, would you > rather > > I > > > said > > > > that a 11663 was available? > > > > > > > > john > > > > ________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > > FLE is Zeiss. > > > > You'll not find it on a Leica box nor on a lens. > > > > Just think of it as "Fleiss". > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.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 > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>