[Leica] Screw the Nocti...

[Sonny Carter]

28mm framelines? I don't think they appeared until the M4-2.  My m3, and my
M5 did not have them.

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> When I finished school and started out moving to Portland Oregon all the
> photographers doing street work which I met starting out were using a 28 or
> a 24's on their Nikon's and that was the lens on their camera they always
> used. All I has was a 45mm at first..  A couple of years later I went with
> a
> 24 2.8 ai in 1977 I used wedding money to get it and a Nikon FM to put it
> on.. I got a 28 2.8 years later.
> And years later I replaced those two lenses with AF versions which I still
> use.
> Most of us and most photographers I've ever met unless they were just
> starting out had both a 28 and a 24. Nobody ever didn't have either. That
> would be crazy. Its always been a basic focal length. Its one of the frame
> lines in M's since the M2 in 1957. Did you want to have frame lines pop up
> in your M that you didn't have a lens for? No you didn't. Perhaps with the
> exception of the 135mm. Or a 75mm.
>
>
>
> On 4/5/15 1:20 AM, "Jay Burleson" <leica at jayburleson.com> wrote:
>
> > I just got my pristine used 28 'cron delivered today.
> > And it will be sunny with scattered clouds tomorrow.
> >
> > And... I have to work all day.
> >
> > So I'm whining to you folks 'cause I know you'll understand my
> > frustration of having to wait until Monday to go out and play with it.
> >
> > But if I don't like it, I know where I can get a gently used Nocti! ;-)
> >
> > Jay
> >
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