Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 50mm f1.5 Nokton question
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 07:22:11 -0700

A fellow lugger emailed me privately and rightly pointed out that:
> 
> You're easily annoyed...
> There's virtually no practical difference between the tenths of an f/stop.



And I replied:



Probably true. Going up one stop from the summicron is something I want to
do as I shoot wide all the time(metaphorically speaking). If I am willing to
go a 1/3 stop less, as a 1/3 of a stop is "meaningless", it is only 2/3 of a
stop more than the summicron. Silly reasoning but there it is. I do know I
need that extra stop and I want all of it that I can get.

John Collier, 

Who really is not annoyed at all but was hoping the lens was really a f1.4
that they called a f1.5 for sentimental reasons