Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica] Why I like the Leica-Users and Other Stories
From: Gilbert Plantinga <gilplant@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:57:58 -0400

on 7/18/01 4:32 AM, Peter Klein at pklein@2alpha.net wrote:

> At 06:03 PM 07/17/2001 -0700, "Dan Honemann" <ddh@home.com> wrote:
> 
>> P.S. I'm still waiting for the mysterious answer to why no one makes a 28mm
>> f1.0 lens.  And I'm hell bent on posting inane messages like this till I get
>> one!
> 
> Because if they did, you'd fall in.
> 
> --Peter
> 

Not exactly. You see, when you walk into a small room with the Noctilux it
tends to suck all of the available light out of the room as soon as you take
off the lens cap. With the wide field of view of a 28 you could do some
serious environmental damage outdoors! Serious photon shortage!

Gilbert ;>