Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/21

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Subject: [Leica] Fujifilm Store Visit in Tokyo
From: abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:49:31 -0500
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Wow! Is that a shipping lens, Howard??? I haven?t heard anything about it. 
I?d love to take it to Africa but I don?t think it will be around for me to 
use.

Drat!

Adam

> On Apr 21, 2015, at 7:13 PM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:
> 
> I was wearing my Tilley photo vest and carrying my XT1 with motor drive 
> with the 35 f1.4 mounted and so Mr. Takashi Ueno
> came over to talk. He is in the Sales and Marketing Division of Imaging 
> Products, spoke quite good English and volunteered that he was involved
> in the design of the XT1. In the showcase were three lenses that 
> particularly interested me - the 100 - 400 zoom - which is BIG Bulky and 
> heavy - weighing
> in just under the weight of the Nikon 80 - 400VR zoom at about 1.4Kg. To 
> keep the weight down some carbon fibre is used in the construction. The 
> maximum aperture is f5.6 and the lens will take an extender reducing the 
> aperture to f8.0 - which means the extender must be a 1.4X or so. That 
> would bring the lens focal length in 35mm terms up to 400 X 1.5 = 600 X 
> 1.4 = 840mm f8.0. 



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