Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For me the elegance and ultra compactness of a three element design; bright into the current era. I'd give the guy the noble prize. Though its about ruined that its not made at a reasonable price. That close to makes it ridiculous at the price its being sold at. And I do what to see how the out of focus areas render. As I bet they render interestingly well. Any lens I'd design would have a rear filter slot of gels or filters. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:34:50 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... > > For me, the appeal is of a single person designing and making a modern > lens, > not its size per se - although that's a plus. Not appealing enough for me > to > drop down $500 though. > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at > frozenlight.eu>wrote: > >> Yawn...100-year old technology, 3.5 max aperture--what is the big deal? If >> you want a really small lens for your M8/M9, just buy the 35mm Summarit. >> >> >> > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information