Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/10

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Subject: [Leica] Advice needed on 35mm lens for Leica M
From: rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)
Date: Thu Mar 10 01:39:05 2005
References: <20050308235414.70010.qmail@web31103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <BE54C05D.1121B%mark@rabinergroup.com>
 
At 00:01 10.03.2005, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>But the 40 is the perfect compromise.
>Three degrees cropped in on both sides from what you'd get from your
>horizontal angle of view from a 35.
>The 35 giving you 54 degrees. The 40 giving you 48. A 50 gives you 40
>degrees HAOV.
>To for me it's a "cake and eat it too" lens.
>I'd get a nice 28 and just keep useing 40.

Agree. My personal Leica-a-la-carte wish would be: three separate 
brightlines only - 28, 40 and 75.
Didier
In reply to: Message from smcj35 at yahoo.com (Colin Yastrzebski) ([Leica] Advice needed on 35mm lens for Leica M)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Advice needed on 35mm lens for Leica M)