Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --- SthRosner@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 4/3/02 3:51:23 PM Eastern Standard > Time, > leicam4pro@yahoo.com writes: > > > My memory tells me that you are refering to the two > > F/6.8 s. > > > > As I remember a famous photographer was given one > > I think you are correct on all counts, PP. I may have > inadvertently started > this thread by referring to an older Leitz telephoto > lens, the 400mm f/5 > Telyt for Visoflex. The question then posed was whether > this lens could be > used on the trombone focussing tube of the 400/6,8 (it > cannot). Somehow, that > elided into this. > > I believe it was David Douglas Duncan who used the > 400/6,8 prototype at the > U.S. national conventions in 1968. It is an excellent > lens - our buddy > Birdman Doug is alleged to have used it - so long as one > bears in mind the > field curvature. > > Seth LaK 9 > -- ============================================================ I didn't want to be a name dropper.... {8o) I seem to remember a book being published as well, with the lens being one of the stars. And I am sure the whole thing was played up to the max in both Modern and Pop. It was a great promotion for the lens... But out of respect to the "bokeh" crowd, it is the curvature of field that makes the central image "pop out" in the picture. I have always hoped I could find one of the Viso versions at an affordable ( for me ) price. But I have never been so lucky. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html