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Subject: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... Not!
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:57:08 -0400

I never met a pancake I didn't like. Thought its been a year since I've had
one.

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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
> 
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