Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi John, Thanks for the weights of the lenses. However at this ending time to my 65 photo year career and near life's end! :-) Naw not yet, it'll happen in 12 years on 27 May 2029! The 100th birthday day as planned and the biggest party ever held. :-) It's highly unlikely I'll ever require your information as I never even knew all this kind of information was ever available, nor why one would ever require it? Let alone where I'd have made any use of it on any assignments that created my collection in The National Archives of Canada of 280 thousand image collection. The largest collection in the history of Canada. Along with another 100 thousand in The National Art Gallery of Canada. These do not include roughly another 200,000 here in Victoria that are in storage and slowly being counted and packed for shipping to the National Archives by spring 2018. Actually during all the years I used Leica's I never read anything in the manuals. I bought them. I just loaded and used them, unpacked and started shooting even before a roll of film had been used and souped many times! WHY? Quite simple really? They were LEICA's and I never ever considered them to be anything but the best for my photojournalism assignments about the world and Canada. Oh sure I used twin lens Rollies for a wee bit of them at a time. One loaded B&W. The other with colour. WHY? Well lot's of time's they never knew how the article would be run? COLOUR or B&W! Then I switched to Hasselblad, but only because some clients wanted images shot on 120 film. No matter how cool ones 35 imagery was beautiful. They were 35mm and too small for excellent reproductions in the weekly rotogravure sections. Also in some magazines. So given I never read all the techie stuff for film cameras. I started with an ARGOS A2 35mm that my wife gave me for my 20th birthday and my first published Front Page photo of the Ottawa Citizen Newspaper 17 September 1951.And not a year since then have I failed to be published!! :-) SORRY Crew for the long post. cheers and may the Great Spirit Bless you all! Dr. Ted Grant O.C. tedgrantphoto.com -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of John McMaster Sent: November-29-17 10:10 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: [Leica] First general purpose M lens to weigh over 1kg!! http://en.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/M-Lenses/Noctillux-M-75-f-1,2 5-ASPH Weighs 1055g compared to 50/1 at 630g, 50/0.95 at 700g and the 75/1.4 at 560g.... john _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information