Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 15/3/00 2:08 pm, Jeremy Kime at jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk wrote: > Horst, > I think that one of the very distinctive things that Cosina have achieved is > promote this impression of 'retro-ness'. The weird numbers of the maximum > apertures certainly adds top this. I would have much preferred f1.4, f2, and > f2.8 but where would the quirkyness and (perverse) attrraction be in that? Tom A told us a funny story about a friend of his who only collects 'prime' lenses, in the sense that their focal length or max aperture is a prime number. Thus, he has a fine collection of 13, 19, 23, 37 and 53 lenses etc, with apertures of 1.9, 2.9 and so on. - -- Johnny Deadman photos: http://www.pinkheadedbug.com music: http://www.jukebox.demon.co.uk