Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/19

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Subject: [Leica] Is 35 the Current 50?
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:42:18 +0000
References: <CAJ4y7gx3zNEi3jDWFCctPJWy+HyvHNPGKWShpmQxYDWPC1EmTw@mail.gmail.com> <CD20A68D.3D81%mark@rabinergroup.com>
 
I read that you are saying, for a given wide angle focal length, that a 
Leica lens will distort less than a Nikon one at the edges...

john

> -----Original Message-----
>On Behalf Of Mark Rabiner
> 
> The wider the lens the more the distortion. That's all I'm saying I'm 
> surprised
> that would be in any way controversial.
> 
> 
> On 1/19/13 12:05 PM, "Robert D. Baron" <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
 > > Does that mean the laws of optics have not changed very much over the
> > last sixty years?
> >
> > --Bob
>>
> > ==On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Mark Rabiner
> <mark at rabinergroup.com>wrote:
> >
> >> If your using Leica not Nikon optics the heads at the edges are less
> >> watermelon like.
> >>
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