Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 180 2.8 R-lens - any experiences?
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 18:17:12 -0600

At 12:32 AM 1/24/98 -0500, you wrote:

>So that's my tale of why the 280mm is a 280mm 2.8! :)

Sooo, Ted, is that in the book? :-)

This is the year of the book, no?

Leica also chose to go with 280mm for the name I'll bet because with a 1.4
converter that was created for it would make it exactly 400, instead of
420mm that people think they were getting with Nikons and Canons. By the
way, Canon's is still a 280.
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

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