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

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Subject: [Leica] New 18 mm lens
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat Feb 14 11:03:33 2009

I think instead of going smaller they went for extreme corrections.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:46:28 -0800
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] New 18 mm lens
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 9:16 PM -0800 2/13/09, Frank Filippone wrote:
>> Nice find!  About $3K.. or so....a bit cheap for a Leica lens.......
>> 
>> Super Elmar it is!
>> 
>> Note, and it may mean nothing, that the lens is specified angle of view 
>> ONLY
>> for the M8.........
>> 
>> Is film really dead?
>> 
>> Frank Filippone
>> red735i@earthlink.net
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.lecirque.fr/product_info.php/cPath/428_256/products_id/38967?osCsi
>> d=65165e9e1b2ab856172eb25b33cc36fd
>> 
>> 
> 
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