Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I find it technically interesting, as an engineer. The triplet is a very pure lens, its down-side is that it requires extreme precision of manufacture in order to achieve the extreme design potential. That is probably why we see so few nowadays, or the lens is used in a cheap form probably with substantial sample variation. The lens in the post is very much smaller (and slower) than the Summarit, and for me a perfectly valid exercise for an enthusiast who thinks there may be 200 eccentrics who will use the lens ;-) About 400 billion times more interesting (to me) than the M9 titanium styling exercise anyway. FD On 23 Sep, 2010, at 05:47, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Yawn...100-year old technology, 3.5 max aperture--what is the big deal? If > you want a really small lens for your M8/M9, just buy the 35mm Summarit. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > YNWA > > > > > > On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:33 AM, Richard Man wrote: > >> ... and no lugger cares? :-) >> >> http://www.japanexposures.com/2010/09/06/ms-optical-super-triplet-perar/ >> >> Only 180 will be produced. Apparently, Miyazaki san designs and makes the >> lens himself. Since the beans were spilled on RFF a couple weeks ago, >> boatload of Leicaphiles went to order the lens and now it is in backorder. >> >> I probably won't get one myself. At one point, I owned 3, count them, 3, >> 50mm M lens but I always went for the same one. That's when I realized >> that >> there is no point for me to own more than one lens of a particular focal >> length (*). >> >> // richard "ain't no Jeff Smith" man >> >> (*) with the exception of the Nokton 50/1.1 and the 'lux. >> >> -- >> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> >> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> >> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> >> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all >> previous >> replies in your msgs. ] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information