Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc James Small wrote: > > At 04:53 PM 1999-03-15 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >Perhaps we should give the world of fast Teles to the Slr people. I > >think of the 75 as a fast very short tele. The 135 focal length is a > >definite tele lens if you're me. > > Neither Leitz nor Leica have really liked "telephoto" lenses: what they > have traditionally produced, for the most part, are "long-focus lenses", at > least for the RF cameras. A "telephoto" lens is optically compressed: > that is, it is shorter physically than its focal length, while the 2.8/135 > or the 2.8/90 ARE that physical length, 135mm and 90mm long. > snip What did they have against them? Mark Rabiner