Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm just off on a trip to Tokyo and wondered where would be the best shops for Mr Kobayashi's (sp?) products. Many thanks, Simon Sent from my iPhone On 26 Aug 2010, at 09:55, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote: > It's there :-) And while I am not a lens designer, the backend cross > section > does look like the Nokton 50/1.1, which makes sense. > > It really is a sound financial move by VC. People are selling "ancient" C > mount 25/0.95 lens for similar prices but only VC has a ready made new > solution. As I understand it, the original 12mm and 15mm "made" the > company, > but I suspect that this lens and others lens for the m4/3 (e.g. how about > if > they shrink that 35/1.2 to a 17/1.2?) will be a major part of the future > for > VC. > > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Daniel Ridings <daniel at dlridings.se> > wrote: > >> As you can read, they are adamantly denying all rumours: >> >> http://www.cosina.co.jp/seihin/voigt/v-lens/micro-ft/index.html >> >> Probably just as well. I have only looked fleetingly through the >> viewfinder with manual focus, but it didn't take me long to realize >> that I am too old to focus that way. >> >> Daniel >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> >> wrote: >>> Firstly, I find it curious that CV would "announce" a new lens on a >> "Rumors" site. >>> >>> But assuming it is true, I am quite sceptical about the utility of this >> lens. The point of using it is to shoot at f0.95, obviously. And given my >> experience focusing the 90mm Elmarit on the GF-1, I think that the % of >> usable images would be below 10%. >>> >>> As others have said, most cameras work best as a system with the lenses >> designed for it, and my conclusion is that despite the automatic >> magnification feature of the GF-1 when focusing manually etc., the GF-1 >> works best with MFT autofocus lenses. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Nathan >>> >>> On 26 Aug, 2010, at 2:56 , Ric Carter wrote: >>> >>>> that's the reason for the question >>>> >>>> i've heard complaints about manual focusing on cameras with electronic >> viewfinders >>>> >>>> ric >>>> >>>> >>>> On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:51 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: >>>> >>>>> It's manual focus. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 25, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Ric Carter wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> i love the concept of this new lens from cv, but is it possible to >> focus the thing? >>>>>> >>>>>> i have no experience, so not a rhetorical question >>>>>> >>>>>> ric >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> Nathan Wajsman >>> Alicante, Spain >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu >>> http://www.greatpix.eu >>> http://www.nathanfoto.com >>> >>> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 >>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >>> Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman >>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information