Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I thought about the yumminess of the 16-18-21 on the --M8 (that's everything before the M8, a geek joke) but the POV between a 16 and 18 are rather close, isn't it? and at F/4, the 15 and 21mm are already covered by the Cosina (*gasp*) lineup. At 05:44 PM 9/14/2006, Mark Rabiner wrote: >http://www.dpreview.com/articles/leicam8/ >!!!!!!!~!!!!! > >I'm not seeing any mention of this mouth watering hot little volcano of an >item as part of the dpreview article on the M8. I wonder if anyone bothered >turning the page!!!?!. >I think we're all to busy playing with our DSLR's to bother with what's >happening with Leica. > >On your M8 it becomes an 21-24-28 mm. > >Film M users might clamor for a 21-24-28 mm. Putting it mildly. >Could get them to learn to love the digital revolution. >To go with their 16-18-21 mm which has revolutionized their Leica film >shooting. >Not that THAT would NOT also revolutionize their film shooting. >As they've promised it covers a whole hunk of 24x36mm flim. > >But sooner or later it will be interesting and I think it will be after >another year that Leica makes a lens optimized for the 1.33 "format". >With advantages in the compactness end as well as the quality of the other >end as its an optic designed around a much smaller image circle. And can >thus be made to produce a higher quality image in that area. >Smaller the circle the higher the resolution and so on are going to be. >Some of us may not know that. Glass which covers medium format as in 6x6cm >do not have the rez in a 24x36 area tat a lens designed for that format has. >And its obvious a medium format lens is nowhere near as compact as lenses >made for 35. > >I've been loving using my 55-200mm F/4-5.6G ED AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor lens. >Featherweight and incredibly compact. >Its an 80-300 which looks like a 105 2.5 or 80 or smaller. >Especially if you leave the lens shade off. >The guy across the street would have no idea you were getting a tight >headshot of his Pomeranian. > >Or Shih Tzu. > >Or Brussels Griffon. > > > > > > > > >Mark Rabiner > >40?46'58.65"N 73?49'31.68"W >Whitestone NY 11357 > >http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)