Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital Bessa? Now curious translation.
From: "animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:41:26 +0100
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nocti portrait lens?wow that would be nic

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From: "Henning Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital Bessa? Now curious translation.


> At 4:46 PM -0800 2/13/04, Feli di Giorgio wrote:
> >  > Initially, I thought 'just another humorous stab at translating
inscrutable
> >>  prose into Engrish.' Then, it hit me, they've been monitoring the
> >>list. "Maniac
> >>  drivelling of the Leica M..." is all the proof one needs.
> >>
> >>  Chris Lawson
> >
> >
> >I used to have a spell checker that tried to substitute "leach" for
leica"....
> >
> >feli
>
> Those Leach cameras have surely sucked me dry in one way, even though
> I retain a little bit of blood.
>
>  From some information I gathered this morning, it might be the 6.1mp
> Sony built sensor that Nikon uses in their DSLR's that's going to
> show up in the EpsoVoightlasina. In that case a 1.5 factor would come
> into effect. Hopefully Cosina will come out with some fast wides
> (with the 1.5 factor in consideration) that will fill the wide gap. A
> 24/1.2 Nokton would be nice. :-)
>
> BTW, one of the posts on this thread mentioned that with the smaller
> sensors the DOF would make the reduced accuracy of the R2 rangefinder
> less of a problem. This is actually the opposite of the truth, if you
> are thinking of a specific lens, and not a specific perspective. If
> you want to use your Noctilux at f/1, it is no easier to focus on the
> correct point or plane than with film at 24x36mm. Your sharpness
> standards will need to increase, as the circle of confusion criteria
> become more stringent the smaller the format due to the increase in
> magnification required for the same print size.
>
> On the other hand, having a lens with the angle of view of the 75
> Summilux available with an aperture of f/1 available sounds
> intriguing, even if some shots aren't focussed perfectly. The smaller
> sensor would also take care of a lot of the vignetting of the
> Noctilux.
>
> Only if you now want the perspective of a 50mm lens (using a 35,
> approx.) do you gain an advantage in depth of field.
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