Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter Niessen wrote: > usually a lens of focal length f should be separated from the > Bildebene by f when focusing at infinity. (This is, as you of course > know, the definition of focal length. Could anyone tell me what > Bildebene is in English?) Hi Peter, "Bildebene" in English is "film plane". And thanks for writing about retrofocus lenses, I was just about to mention that this is indeed one of the reasons the 35mm M is smaller than the R lens... Keith Bingman Riedheim