Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/14

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Subject: [Leica] New 18 mm lens
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Sat Feb 14 08:13:42 2009
References: <20090214011558.ED1F6BE407B@ws1-9.us4.outblaze.com> <003801c98e63$5dde5c50$199b14f0$@net> <p0623090ac5bc34e01173@[10.0.1.199]>

Maybe it is a change in marketing focus rather than a small sensor
issue.....  Focusing the lens into the hands of the M8 users.....

But still, I would prefer it say that it covers the 24x36 format......(
because no M8  lives with me......)

Competitively the Zeiss 18 is $1000 or so.... F4 ( as well), and is small (
I think).  This lens is $3K or so..... 
Is the Zeiss lens made in Japan by Cosina or is it a German lens?  How is
the build quality on the Zeiss?

I wonder... if the M8 is only a smaller sensor, why introduce lenses for the
"old" (24x36) market....?
I just have to believe there is a M9 with full 24x36 sensor coming
soon....... or maybe an M10?  M11?

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net



I'm quite convinced it covers 24x36.

a. Kaufmann said all their lenses would.

b. It's very large for a lens that only covers the M8 format. 
Remember, a lens that covers the same angle of view and has the same 
speed and was also designed very recently (the 24/3.8) is a lot 
smaller.






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