Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: New M Tri lens - "Retrogressive?"
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 21:31 +0000 (PST)

Erwin Puts wrote:
 
> I wonder why a 2.8/28 is considered a slow lens and a 2.8/280 is fast
> one.
[snip]

Well you can go out and buy a 28mm f1.4, so the 28mm f2.8 is a full
two stops behind what's available elsewhere. I'd say that made the "slow"
adjective appropriate.