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 14:21:22 2009

Three years ago Leica was not owned by its present owner and the world was
not going through a global economic phenomenon on the negative side.
A bit hard to make predictions now.
The M8 came out two and a half years ago.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:15:07 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] New 18 mm lens
> 
> 
> On Feb 14, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> This lens was announced to use at a Leica Historical Society of
>> America
>> three years ago. I'm glad it finally appears.
> 
> so we can extrapolate... the R10 may take 10 years...(well maybe 7)...
> 
> 
> :-)
> 
> 
> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> 
>>>>    *            Henning J. Wulff
>>>>   /|\      Wulff Photography & Design
>>>>  /###\   mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com
>>>>  |[ ]|     http://www.archiphoto.com
>>>> 
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