Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/06

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Subject: RE: [Leica] 50's big and small
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:55:31 -0400
 
Is that the Calista Flockhart model I've been hearing so much about?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> Krechtz@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 11:29 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 50's big and small
> 
> 
> In a message dated 9/5/00 9:18:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com writes:
> 
> << A 50mm Noctilux weighs 630 g's
>  A 50mm Elmar weighs 170 g.
>  So that's 3 & 3/4's times heavier! >>
> 
> I have heard it rumored that Leica will be showing a new 
> anamorphic, aspheric 
> APO version of the Noctilux at Photokina, that weighs only 300 grams!  I 
> understand it will be known as the Anorexic...
> 
> Joe Sobel
>