Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow! Is that a shipping lens, Howard??? I haven?t heard anything about it. I?d love to take it to Africa but I don?t think it will be around for me to use. Drat! Adam > On Apr 21, 2015, at 7:13 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > > I was wearing my Tilley photo vest and carrying my XT1 with motor drive > with the 35 f1.4 mounted and so Mr. Takashi Ueno > came over to talk. He is in the Sales and Marketing Division of Imaging > Products, spoke quite good English and volunteered that he was involved > in the design of the XT1. In the showcase were three lenses that > particularly interested me - the 100 - 400 zoom - which is BIG Bulky and > heavy - weighing > in just under the weight of the Nikon 80 - 400VR zoom at about 1.4Kg. To > keep the weight down some carbon fibre is used in the construction. The > maximum aperture is f5.6 and the lens will take an extender reducing the > aperture to f8.0 - which means the extender must be a 1.4X or so. That > would bring the lens focal length in 35mm terms up to 400 X 1.5 = 600 X > 1.4 = 840mm f8.0.