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Subject: [Leica] 21mm f1.4 Summilux - the next "must have?"
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 00:45:01 -0500
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Sorry, Frank.  I didn't mean to pick at a sore spot.  I just feel that tight 
framing is overrated.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] 21mm f1.4 Summilux - the next "must have?"


> I'm no purist, but 35mm is a frequently used lens for me, it is already 
> vague enough...
> Frank
>
> On 6 Jul, 2010, at 06:31, Jim Nichols wrote:
>
>> That seems easy to overcome, except for purists.  You change the 
>> mechanism to deliver a 37.5 view, and use it for both lenses.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Dernie" 
>> <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 12:24 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] 21mm f1.4 Summilux - the next "must have?"
>>
>>
>>> Also, there is no room on the current frame line mechanism for 40 as 
>>> well as 35 framelines.
>>> Frank
>>>
>>> On 6 Jul, 2010, at 04:43, Marty Deveney wrote:
>>>
>>>> Leica are happy to make external viewfinders that they can sell at
>>>> additional cost to the bodies but modifying the frameline sets in the
>>>> camera, with assoiated increased manufacturing costs doesn't seem to
>>>> please them.  I don't want an external finder and I doubt Leica are
>>>> going to make a lens for thirty year old CLs and CLEs or (I imagine
>>>> this would give Leica a shudder) the Cosina R3A/M.  But I also accept
>>>> that I can't expect Leica to make everything that I think I want.
>>>>
>>>> Marty
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at 
>>>> rabinergroup.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> A new 40 would be very nice.  Leica they seem reluctant to have
>>>>>> different finder frameline sets or magnifications except with the a 
>>>>>> la
>>>>>> carte price premium, so I don't think a 40 seems likely.  But it 
>>>>>> would
>>>>>> be nice, Leica, if you're listening...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Marty
>>>>>
>>>>> Having come out with an 18 and the tri elmar wide maybe they are 
>>>>> liking
>>>>> making viewfinders now and selling them. I think making those two 
>>>>> optics may
>>>>> have loosened them up a bit on that end.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [Rabs]
>>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] 21mm f1.4 Summilux - the next "must have?")
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