Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] New 4/3 equipment?
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:55:18 -0700
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It's there :-) And while I am not a lens designer, the backend cross section
does look like the Nokton 50/1.1, which makes sense.

It really is a sound financial move by VC. People are selling "ancient" C
mount 25/0.95 lens for similar prices but only VC has a ready made new
solution. As I understand it, the original 12mm and 15mm "made" the company,
but I suspect that this lens and others lens for the m4/3 (e.g. how about if
they shrink that 35/1.2 to a 17/1.2?) will be a major part of the future for
VC.


On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Daniel Ridings <daniel at dlridings.se> 
wrote:

> As you can read, they are adamantly denying all rumours:
>
> http://www.cosina.co.jp/seihin/voigt/v-lens/micro-ft/index.html
>
> Probably just as well. I have only looked fleetingly through the
> viewfinder with manual focus, but it didn't take me long to realize
> that I am too old to focus that way.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> wrote:
> > Firstly, I find it curious that CV would "announce" a new lens on a
> "Rumors" site.
> >
> > But assuming it is true, I am quite sceptical about the utility of this
> lens. The point of using it is to shoot at f0.95, obviously. And given my
> experience focusing the 90mm Elmarit on the GF-1, I think that the % of
> usable images would be below 10%.
> >
> > As others have said, most cameras work best as a system with the lenses
> designed for it, and my conclusion is that despite the automatic
> magnification feature of the GF-1 when focusing manually etc., the GF-1
> works best with MFT autofocus lenses.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nathan
> >
> > On 26 Aug, 2010, at 2:56 , Ric Carter wrote:
> >
> >> that's the reason for the question
> >>
> >> i've heard complaints about manual focusing on cameras with electronic
> viewfinders
> >>
> >> ric
> >>
> >>
> >> On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:51 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>> It's manual focus.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Aug 25, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Ric Carter wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> i love the concept of this new lens from cv, but is it possible to
> focus the thing?
> >>>>
> >>>> i have no experience, so not a rhetorical question
> >>>>
> >>>> ric
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >
> > Nathan Wajsman
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> >
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> >
> >
> >
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