Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica] Why I like the Leica-Users and Other Stories
From: "Bernard Degaute" <bernard.degaute@village.uunet.be>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:35:24 +0200

>> At 06:03 PM 07/17/2001 -0700, "Dan Honemann" <ddh@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>> P.S. I'm still waiting for the mysterious answer to why no one makes a
28mm
>>> f1.0 lens.  And I'm hell bent on posting inane messages like this till I
get
>>> one!
>>
>> Because if they did, you'd fall in.
>>
>> --Peter
>>
>
>Not exactly. You see, when you walk into a small room with the Noctilux it
>tends to suck all of the available light out of the room as soon as you
take
>off the lens cap. With the wide field of view of a 28 you could do some
>serious environmental damage outdoors! Serious photon shortage!
>
>Gilbert ;>

Do you mean a 28mm f1.0 works like a black hole ?

Bernard :-)


bernard.degaute@village.uunet.be