Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica 280mm f2.8 not 2.8
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 22:44:46 -0500

At 06:27 PM 4/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Anyway, the lens is quoted as a f2.8, but it only opens to f3.4 . What gives?
>Also the focus seems to have a cam much like the Canon FD 300mmf2.8 .

It should open up, it's really a 2.8 lens. Jim will fix it for you, if 
there is something wrong. As for the Canon, the focal length of early Canon 
300 2.8s is really 280mm. But that's where the similarities end.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

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