Re: [Leica] Which Leica M6 should I buy?

[Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>]

I wonder how the 75/1.4 manages with the .58 model wide open?

dan c.

At 12:07 PM 17-09-00 -0700, Tom Schofield wrote:
>Mark,
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>Read Erwin's "more than you ever wanted to know" article on rangefinder
>accuracy.  (Or even just the concluding paragraphs!)  Apparently, increasing
>focal length is more of a problem to rangefinder accuracy than wider lens
>openings. The 135 APO is more critical to focus with a rangefinder than the
>Noctilux.  Leica's press release says that the 0.58 is suficient for the
>Noctilux and 90 APO.  Erwin's paper says even the 0.72 is pretty marginal on
>the 135 APO.
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>> I'm not mathematician or physicist but I'm surprised they would have
>frames for
>> the Noctilux (which I don't got) and not for the 135 3.4 apo (which I do
>got -
>> and like)
>> I would think the trigonometric situation would be just as adverse,
>> course they wouldn't let be get NEAR trigonometry darn it!
>> Markwr
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