Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/28

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Subject: [Leica] New S lens
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:57:04 -0400

I think a 60 is a normal.
Plenty think  of a 35 is a normal.
I go as low as 40 in my own mind. And its my favorite lens for my Leica M's.

-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw at archiphoto.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:14:03 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] New S lens
> 
> Well, 55mm and 57mm lenses used to be called and sold as 'normal' lenses 
> for
> 35mm SLR's in the 60's. The S2's 70 is right in line with those.
> 
> 'Normal' is about as rigidly defined as a 'glass' of beer, except with beer
> you mostly get less than anticipated and with lenses you usually get more
> (focal length) than anticipated.
> 
> Henning
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2011-10-27, at 7:45 PM, Marty Deveney wrote:
> 
>> It has an  84?, 74?, 53? (diagonal, horizontal, vertical) angle of
>> view, the same as a 24 mm lens on a 24x36mm frame.
>> 
>> The roadmapped but unannounced 24/2.8 for the S2 will be very interesting.
>> 
>> I agree that the 70 is far from normal.
>> 
>> Marty
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Normal for the S2 format by the way is 54mm's.
>>> Leica is calling their "normal' a 70 which makes you think the sensor is
>>> that big; it ain't.
>>> You cant blame them for  NOT coming out with a 55mm lens and calling it a
>>> normal nobody would think it was medium format. Yet it really is.
>>> The problem is what we think a 35mm full frame or film is is not.
>>> Its not 50. Its really 43.
>>> And 55 really is a full jump up from 43.
>>> But 55 from 50 is negligible.
>>> 
>>> I just say that because 30 is way wider than a 70. Which makes you think 
>>> its
>>> super wide.
>>> But 30 is so than from a 55.
>>> Perhaps someone can do a comparative angle of view to see how that 
>>> compares
>>> to what we are familiar with in 35mm photography.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Mark R.
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> From: Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com>
>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:27:40 +0100
>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Subject: [Leica] New S lens
>>>> 
>>>> This has just been posted on the BJP site:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2120595/leica
>>>> -un
>>>> veils-30mm-lens-syte
>>>> 
>>>> Gerry
>>>> 
>>>> Gerry Walden LRPS
>>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 (Office)
>>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932 (Mobile)
>>>> Web: www.gwpics.com
>>>> Blog: www.gerrywalden.wordpress.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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> 
> Henning Wulff
> henningw at archiphoto.com
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