Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/23

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Subject: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... Not!
From: jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:00:02 -0400
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2010-09-23-15:55:50 Mark Rabiner:
> So they've finally come out with a lens in which your stop down issues are
> not there from an irregular f stop circle which you get no matter how many
> leaves you've got and how round they are!!! They had that on some enlarger
> lenes. I always hopped somebody would do that. Perfect circles you slip in.
> Bokeh should improve.

There was a very sweet little 35mm point-and-shoot (Minolta, maybe?) which 
did that.

That's it, I remembered the name: the TC-1.

http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/index-frameset.html?MinoltaTC1.html~mainFrame

Per Mike Johnston: "Best Tiny Little Lens in a Tiny Little Camera: Minolta 
G-Rokkor 28mm ?/3.5 in the Minolta TC-1"

  http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-june-05.shtml

 -Jeff


In reply to: Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... Not!)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... Not!)