[Leica] Screw the Nocti...

[George Lottermoser]

On Apr 8, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> A photographer friend of mine in 2006 had just gotten back from Europe and
> had lunch with Martine Franck. She told him her the lens on her camera
> sitting right there never came off her camera and she had used it for years.
> It was the year the much improved 28 Elmarit F2.8 ASPH came out and I may
> have expressed surprise that she'd not moved up to that.  And I can't recall
> if he discussed that with her. This lens she had fallen in love with was the
> pervious version a non asph 28 Elmarit F2.8 Type 4 (8 element 7 groups ).
> This lens came out in 1992. So before that lens came out she had at least 50
> years of shooting with other lenes. I have no idea of she only shot 28s
> before then or not. I only got the impression she had fallen into the use of
> that later version of the 28 and became known for it. If I had to guess I'd
> think she was in possession after 50 years of photography of more than a
> dozen lenses. When she happened to have fallen into her love of the 28mm
> focal length I'm not able to discover. It doesn't come up in a search.

very cool story.

glad I commented and got this additional background to your original statment

thanks

Regards,
George Lottermoser 

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