Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2000-05-08-18:39:31 Johnny Deadman: > Let's just say that fans of wideangles will be happy for TWO different > reasons, and only one of them is a lens. So... the excessively obvious conclusion based on this broad hint is: - That 28/2.0 ASPH we've been hearing about - A lower-mag body The latter is certainly an intriguing idea. The former would be if I found myself gravitating to the 28mm's field of view much, but I don't. But then... on a lower-mag body, the 28mm framelines wouldn't be all the way out at the edges, so just as the 0.72 is an ideal body for a 35mm lens, a body which managed to include (dare we hope?) 21mm framelines would likely have 28mm lines with a comfortable amount of space around 'em. Oops, I'm already preparing to be seduced. So it'll be a mached set, then. Buy 'em all! The question is: how would frameline selection be done for framelines not yet part of the traditional set? A switch on the body? I for one would welcome this even for some of the existing lines -- I'd love to be able to choose, for example, 50mm-only or 75mm-only. Meandering, sorry.