[Leica] First general purpose M lens to weigh over 1kg!!

[Ted Grant]

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

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