Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/27

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Subject: [Leica] New S lens
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:15:37 +1030
References: <D5158324-A3BD-4972-B273-3CC5D9BE75DA@me.com> <CACF8C34.16071%mark@rabinergroup.com>

It has an  84?, 74?, 53? (diagonal, horizontal, vertical) angle of
view, the same as a 24 mm lens on a 24x36mm frame.

The roadmapped but unannounced 24/2.8 for the S2 will be very interesting.

I agree that the 70 is far from normal.

Marty


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
> Normal for the S2 format by the way is 54mm's.
> Leica is calling their "normal' a 70 which makes you think the sensor is
> that big; it ain't.
> You cant blame them for ?NOT coming out with a 55mm lens and calling it a
> normal nobody would think it was medium format. Yet it really is.
> The problem is what we think a 35mm full frame or film is is not.
> Its not 50. Its really 43.
> And 55 really is a full jump up from 43.
> But 55 from 50 is negligible.
>
> I just say that because 30 is way wider than a 70. Which makes you think 
> its
> super wide.
> But 30 is so than from a 55.
> Perhaps someone can do a comparative angle of view to see how that compares
> to what we are familiar with in 35mm photography.
>
> --
> Mark R.
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>
>> From: Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com>
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>> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:27:40 +0100
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>> Subject: [Leica] New S lens
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>> This has just been posted on the BJP site:
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>> http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2120595/leica-un
>> veils-30mm-lens-syte
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>> Gerry
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Replies: Reply from henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] New S lens)
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