Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Quibble, quibble. The 280mm lens could have been of any diameter. The fact that Leica engineers chose to limit its effective aperture to 70 mm by using a smaller biscuit of glass instead of a metal stop simply indicates their common sense. You or I could hardly afford or much less carry around an f1.2 280mm telephoto. - LarryZ