[Leica] Fujifilm Store Visit in Tokyo

[Adam Bridge]

Wow! Is that a shipping lens, Howard??? I haven’t heard anything about it. I’d love to take it to Africa but I don’t think it will be around for me to use.

Drat!

Adam

> On Apr 21, 2015, at 7:13 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:
> 
> I was wearing my Tilley photo vest and carrying my XT1 with motor drive with the 35 f1.4 mounted and so Mr. Takashi Ueno
> came over to talk. He is in the Sales and Marketing Division of Imaging Products, spoke quite good English and volunteered that he was involved
> in the design of the XT1. In the showcase were three lenses that particularly interested me - the 100 - 400 zoom - which is BIG Bulky and heavy - weighing
> in just under the weight of the Nikon 80 - 400VR zoom at about 1.4Kg. To keep the weight down some carbon fibre is used in the construction. The maximum aperture is f5.6 and the lens will take an extender reducing the aperture to f8.0 - which means the extender must be a 1.4X or so. That would bring the lens focal length in 35mm terms up to 400 X 1.5 = 600 X 1.4 = 840mm f8.0.