[Leica] 21/1.4??

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Jeff the 35mm 1.4 ASPH is half the size and weight of the 21 and 24.
If you were shooting with a DSLR and wanted to shoot something slightly wide
you'd not have to have glass in front that was twice the size and weight of
a normal.
No other company has come out with a thing such as an ultra wide ultra fast
lens for reasons based on the logics and realities of lens design.
I believe its a bit of an affront to lens design.
The reason a 21 would be made anywhere near that fast would be because of
the crop factor and the 21 would not be that wide as a result.
Is Leica going to be investing that much time and energy into lens design
because of the crop factor?
I don't think so.
I think they're spending their recourses into getting rid of the crop factor
factor.
They know people are not going to spend big bucks so they can shoot wide and
fast with a small sensor. They are going to spend it  on a larger sensor
system.
I believe that other than my own preferences they represent the cold hard
realities of where photography is at nowadays and the "Market".



mark@rabinergroup.com
Mark William Rabiner



> From: Jeff Moore <jbm@jbm.org>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:15:05 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 21/1.4??
> 
> 2008-09-11-12:55:57 Mark Rabiner:
>> But the 21 and 24 asphs are not small. They are big and quite heavy.
>> What's needed is an F4 like the kind of stuff CV is making.
> 
> Sez you.  Over and over again.  Because that's what you like -- teensy
> light pancakey little lenses for wandering around during the day.
> 
> But I don't take most of my pictures outside in the daylight.  At least
> half of my best stuff happens inside in the dim.  My most-used lens
> these days during normal vampire hours is the 35/1.4 ASPH, and it stays
> stuck on f/1.4 for the most part.  How useful would an f/4 lens be to
> me?  Basically not at all.  That's the difference between ISO 320 (which
> looks great) or 640 (which looks almost great) and trying to pull an
> image out of the raging snowstorm which is ISO 2500.
> 
>> And ultra fast ultra wide?
>> Boy I sure hope not.
> 
> Boy I sure hope so.  Or if not ultra-wide, then wide-ish.  Like 35
> divided by 1.33 wide.  Which would be 26mm.  So a 24mm Summilux would be
> loverly.  Or even 28mm.  But 24mm would be spiffers.  And even works
> with the M8's framelines, if I start using my contact lenses again
> instead of the glasses.
> 
>  -Jeff
> 
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