Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Too thin to be a body cap. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:44:38 +0900 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... Not! > > Mark, > > in English English, pancakes are even thinner than French crepes and > fried batter cakes US Americans call 'pancakes'. In Scottish English, > pancakes are thicker than their English cousins, and look more like US > pancakes. These are what the Japanese call hot cakes. In England, > these fatter ones are not called pancakes, they are called drop scones. > > So the thinnest fried batter cakes are what the English, not the Scots > or US Americans, call pancakes. ;-) > I like 'em all. With lemon and sugar, or maple syrup, or Gruyere and > mushroom cream sauce. Or f/3.5, 35mm. > > Refer to Mrs. Beeton. > > Cheers! > > Peter Cheyne > > A proper pancake lens: > > http://tinyurl.com/2v72nzb > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information