Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And a lot of those 55 - 58 mm lenses were really great, but I think they were often made that focal length to avoid having to make them retrofocus. I have a Ricoh 55/1.2 (I think that was it, but I could be wrong on both the speed and focal length) somewhere that was just lovely - and Pentax fit too. Its signature was somewhat like a less stressed 50/1 Noctilux. Marty On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com> wrote: > Well, 55mm and 57mm lenses used to be called and sold as 'normal' lenses > for 35mm SLR's in the 60's. The S2's 70 is right in line with those. > > 'Normal' is about as rigidly defined as a 'glass' of beer, except with > beer you mostly get less than anticipated and with lenses you usually get > more (focal length) than anticipated. > > Henning > > > > > On 2011-10-27, at 7:45 PM, Marty Deveney wrote: > >> 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. >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >>> >>> >>>> From: Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com> >>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:27:40 +0100 >>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Subject: [Leica] New S lens >>>> >>>> This has just been posted on the BJP site: >>>> >>>> http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2120595/leica-un >>>> veils-30mm-lens-syte >>>> >>>> Gerry >>>> >>>> Gerry Walden LRPS >>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 (Office) >>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932 (Mobile) >>>> Web: www.gwpics.com >>>> Blog: www.gerrywalden.wordpress.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > Henning Wulff > henningw at archiphoto.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >