Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I used to think that the horizontal width would be the most useful for us 'joe public' to see, but of course these lens deigners still have to worry about generating a circular image, irrespective of the film format used behind the lens, in front of the plane of focus. To them, the angle is width, and hieght and diagonal. It's merely us photographers who impose a rectangle on their glorious circular image. Maybe Eastman got it right with the first Kodak box cameras, they left the image circular. No more arguments about "I think this would look better as a vertical composition", everyone looked through a 'porthole'. Jem - -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner [SMTP:mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com] I notice on the Leica PDF's that the lenes angles of views are the diagonal. On the F/calc it says 84 for the diagonal and 73 for the horizontal on the 24. On the PDF it says 84 so i assume they're talking diagonal. I'd think the Horizontal would be what must people would want to know and expect to see! mark R.