Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Evans Didn't Gerald Bull design such a cannon for Iraq? Jerry Mark Rabiner wrote: > Steve Unsworth wrote: > > > > Jerry > > > > A f1.4 90mm would have close to zero depth of field wide open, especially > > close up. It's a question of focussing accuracy as anyone who's ever used a > > Nocti of a 75mm Summilux at f1/f1.4 will know. > > > > Steve > > > > It would be the mother of all lenses. IT world have to be permanently > aimed at Paris or back at Berlin and hope for no earth tremors. > It would become part of the landscape or dirt-scape. The Guns of August > Tom Swift And His Giant Cannon > http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/youth/tomswift/TomSwiftAndHisGiantCannon/chap3.html > > That's why they made it a 75. It would make the Noct look like an > enlarger lens. > > Mark Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > > But a 2 would placate the 1.4 dudes who don't want it touched and also > please the others who don't value compactness and just want to blaze > away. I say it's a Leica it should fit in your pocket. > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html