Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd personally be plenty happy with the rumoured 28 Summicron - wider than the 35, faster than the current offering, but no external finder. Paul > Canon's 24 mm f/1.4 lens has, I believe, a 72 mm filter front. As does > Nikon's 28 mm f/1.4. Seems like that would be quite the > viewfinder blocker, and therefore impracticle, on an M camera. > > But Nikon's 24 mm f/2 lens has just a 52 mm filter front. And > I'd think > modern aspherics could make such a lens smaller and/or lighter and/or > optically better than the Nikon (and the 24 f/2 Nikkor is no slouch to > begin with). That seems entirely practical -- and a realistic > hope -- for the M system.