Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]By the way I check its not what I put down on the email: a 35-50-28 I find its the LEICA TRI-ELMAR-M 16-18-21 mm f/4 ASPH. Called by some the Super Wide Tri Elmar or And this really capture the focal lengths of the bulk of serious shooters out there when they use a zoom... They're using not a wide zoom but a real wide zoom. Ultra wide. Which I think people think of as 21 and wider. another approach perhaps Ted's is to carry multiple bodies with your favorite lenses on them... As in the ones you own. This made it so you're not going to have to be changing film during a fast breaking situation that you don't want to miss any shots on. And you can use fast glass or half assed glass anything you want. When I die and go to photo heavon I'll have three M 240's around my neck and or in my side bags. I'll have a SUPER-ELMAR-M 18 mm f/3.8 ASPH. ELMAR-M 24 mm f/3.8 ASPH. LEICA SUMMICRON-M 35 mm f/2 ASPH. Which I already have... Or my 40. Or my 50. The 90's are too damn heavy but I'd tell God or Satan depending I'd want to borrow the APO-SUMMICRON-M 75 mm f/2 ASPH for the duration of the next millennium. Before everything goes hologram. People think of f 3.8 as excruciatingly slow but if I'm not looking through that lens to get the shot I sure don't and if its a wide I'm using all kinds of real slow shudder speeds and I like smaller lighter less obtrusive glass. And 3.8 is a blazing 0.148 stops faster than the f4 wide TRI-ELMAR Otherwise known scientifically as "a smidgen". http://imaginatorium.org/stuff/stops.htm " A "smidgen" means less than one-sixth of a stop" And carrying three bodies one could put color in one of them just to mess with peoples heads. Or shoot that new digital thing they're coming out with. $6950 * 3 = $20,850 I'll pick them up tonight on the way back from buying milk. On 9/18/13 11:54 AM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > And a very fine tool for the street as demonstrated by Lluis on the streets > here right now. I tried it briefly on the new camera too and it could > become very addictive. > > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 19 September 2013 00:22, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie at > btinternet.com>wrote: > >> It focuses fine between focal lengths, though I can't say I have >> deliberately checked infinity, but have taken Leica at their word. >> >> The MATE is not a zoom, and Leica advise against using between FL click >> stops (unlike their advice on the WATE). Since the standard sequence for >> focal length of the frame lines is 35-50-28 the FL ring goes from 35 to 50 >> to 28 which makes impossible smooth transition through the focal lengths, >> so it has rapid ramps and detents on the FL cams for just those 3 focal >> lengths. >> >> >> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Sent: Wednesday, 18 September 2013, 11:34 >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT. Nikon screen brightness and contrast >>> >>> >>> Does it focus to infinity in between fixed focal lengths? The MATE will >> not focus over a couple of metres when between FLs... >>> >>> john >>> ________________________________________ >>> >>> >>> As it happens, it is a zoom lens and is perfectly useable with in between >> focal lengths, it just has no viewfinder appropriate, though the new >> camera >> has a live view function which resolves that. >>> FD >>> >>> On 18 Sep, 2013, at 07:24, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >>> >>>> For the M there is the TRI-ELMAR-M 16-18-21 mm f/4 ASPH >>>> And I could convince myself it was a zoom. Its just missing a few of >> the in >>>> between focal lenghs. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/