Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My 35mm 3.5 also has f stops which move when you focus. Its a Summaron. I'm sure many here know what I'm talking about. Takes some getting used to. But its gorgeous and functional. You just gotto go looking to find your f stops lots of times. http://www.vintageclassiccamera.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4 &products_id=1069&zenid=48bm84v2jlqo5s91bs4lnel2f1 Or http://tinyurl.com/2uny5u3 -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:40:20 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... > > Mark, > > The language is probably a translation, but I get the idea that it is just > like the collapsable 50mm 3.5 Elmar. The whole lens turns when focusing, > so > the aperture scale rotates also. This does NOT mean that the f-stop > changes. The scale just rolls around with the lens. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:31 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... > > >> My kind of lens exactly. >> But why would the f stops move when you focas? >> >> -------------------- >> 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 19:33:28 -0700 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... >>> >>> ... and no lugger cares? :-) >>> >>> http://www.japanexposures.com/2010/09/06/ms-optical-super-triplet-perar/ >>> >>> Only 180 will be produced. Apparently, Miyazaki san designs and makes the >>> lens himself. Since the beans were spilled on RFF a couple weeks ago, >>> boatload of Leicaphiles went to order the lens and now it is in >>> backorder. >>> >>> I probably won't get one myself. At one point, I owned 3, count them, 3, >>> 50mm M lens but I always went for the same one. That's when I realized >>> that >>> there is no point for me to own more than one lens of a particular focal >>> length (*). >>> >>> // richard "ain't no Jeff Smith" man >>> >>> (*) with the exception of the Nokton 50/1.1 and the 'lux. >>> >>> -- >>> // 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information