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 11:40:34 2009

This lens was announced to use at a Leica Historical Society of America
three years ago. I'm glad it finally appears.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:03:30 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Conversation: [Leica] New 18 mm lens
> Subject: Re: [Leica] New 18 mm lens
> 
> 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?osCs>>>
i
>>> d=65165e9e1b2ab856172eb25b33cc36fd
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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