Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stephen, thanks for the picture reference. I looked around a few sites yesterday but couldn't find anything. Kind of you to post this on. Now they need to introduce a full frame fish-eye and a circular image fish-eye and that should about wrap up the wide angle side of things, unless of course, they can think of some other new designs! I still marvel at the wonderful sharpness of my 16mm f2.8 F-distagon which I had adapted to work on my Leica-M. It came off a Rolleiflex 35Me, eventually, as it had seemed to be glued in place, and as a consequence was only 70 GBP for the two items (camera and body). I had an adapter made and then made a viewfinder myself out of a security viewer showing the correct field of view across the diagonal, 180 degrees. Ad hoc perhaps but then framing is never going to be perfect with extreme wide angles. Some of the guys at Photokina last time got to see it. Jem > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Gandy [SMTP:leicanikon@earthlink.net] > > Amazingly, Cosina Voigtlander just announced a 12/5.6 Super Wide, NOT > a fish eye. > > http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~eg3y-ssk/photo/cameraexpo2000/show.htm > > perhaps someone could translate ??? > > Stephen Gandy