Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> > > > -- > > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information