Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]personally i'll take a center filter but in concept the goerz hypergon around ww1 takes the cake for ingenuity and fun. they had a mini flyswatter you wound and it vibrated in the center of the as you shot. improbably as it sounds they say the 75mm focal length of a rollei covered 8x10. have seen the lens w/o swatter. the official zeiss historical collection seized after the war was intrusted by our government to burke and james for safe keeping. was this putting the fox in charge of the henhouse?ralph > From: "Jean-Claude Berger" <jcberger@jcberger.com> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 08:42:53 +0200 > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Another (new) 15mm for Leica M (39mm) , the Panomigon > 15mm f22 > > From what I understand, the Panomigon is a "concept lens" (à la concept-car) > to demonstrate the ACV usability. ACV is more or less painting little black > dots on the edge of internal lenses in order to compensate vignetting. > > -- > Jean-Claude Berger (jcberger@jcberger.com) > Systems and RDBMS consultant (MCSE) > Lyon, France > http://www.jcberger.com > > >> An effective aperture (with ACV, whatever that is!) of f/22, and at best >> geometric aperture of f/11 doesn't bode well for either practicality nor >> optical performance. >> >> I think I'll pass. >> >> * Henning J. Wulff >> /|\ Wulff Photography & Design >> /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com >> |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com >> >