Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:35 AM 8/29/02 -0400, you wrote: >In a message dated 8/29/02 11:05:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >stuart.phillips@rcn.com writes: > > > Who but God could have designed the Noctilux? > >Marc James will say Carl Zeiss. Could have. But chose not to. Had no camera >on which to put it. > >Nicht wahr, Seamus? To be fair, an f/1 lens would have been a superb vehicle for the Contax IV but, well, you see, they sort of, kind of forgot to put that one into production ... Zeiss, of course, has made a number of super-fast lenses over the years, including the monstrosity designed for the Hasselblad and used to film the candle-light scenes in Barry Lindon. Marc msmall@infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html