Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Tom. Thank you for your reports, and I am glad to hear you enjoyed your trip to Tokyo and Hong-Kong. How I miss good Japanese and Cantonese foods! On this part of the globe, they are just dream.... > Instead, there were new lenses and different mounts on > lenses. Most of this stuff is still cloaked in secrecy so I cannot tell > anything. But there are a couple of pieces that can be revealed, a small, > compact 39mm screw-mount lens that fills the gap between the 15 and 25 (snip) This sounds very interesting. A tiny 21/4 would be nice, if one does not want to spend a lot for a 21/2.8 asph which is rather big... >a new black/white film from Fuji, it is a 100 ASA and the name in >Japan is ACROS (no, I have no idea what it means either) and judging from the >two rolls I shot, it could give Delta 100 a run for its money! I have heard a lot of good things about this film and that the name means "ultimate" in Greek. It is not so exaggerated, is it? ;-) Cheers, Mikiro Strasbourg http://arbos.silva.net