Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/20

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Canyon Library
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 23:51:24 -0400 (EDT)

Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

>Geoff,
>Interesting. Any ideas on the specifications of this lens?
>Cheers
>Jayanand
>
>On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
>gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Jayanand they had an  APO 280 in prototype form at least by last 
>> September.
>> I have a feeling that Doug Herr would be willing to carry it around ;-)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Geoff
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>

I believe it was a 350mm f/3.5 APO, not a 280.  On the S2 its field of view 
is like a 280mm lens on 35mm film.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com