Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]More precisely 91.0 mm, in Europe that would be 91,0 mm To answer the unasked, if the two digits were 98 then the focal length would be 89.8 mm. I started a faq on this but never quite finished it. Dennis ;-) Ken Wilcox wrote: > As I recall that makes it a 91mm. > > Ken Wilcox > > At 9:46 -0700 6/23/1, a fine scholar, G. Michael Paine wrote: > > >With growing fascination I've followed the threads of late that tell > >me that the small white number on the focus ring indicates the actual > >focal length of the lens. > >So, at the risk of appearing redundant: I have just got a new Elmarit > >90 and there to the right of the white "m" is the number 10. > >Does this mean that the focal length of this lens is really 100mm? If > >so this seems a rather large difference from the stated focal length > >and I would be surprised that Leica or any lens maker would sell a > >100mm lens as a 90mm. > >Michael Paine > > ---- > Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits > preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> > <kwilcox@gfn.org>