[LRflex] Re: Anyone using Angenieux converted to N... over here?
- From: Richard Ward <ilovaussiesheps@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:53:38 -0800 (PST)
George!
I'll grant that there is an exquisite 'internal logic' to how they mark a
lens, but it appears to be the act of a complete nutter in the context of the
REST of Still Photographic History. At least that which I've been privy too
knowing about and that's coming from someone who used to -FOR FUN- read the
McKeown's Guide for prices of Antique and Used Camera Equipment on a routine
basis.
A) Why yes, I am a 'Nutter' myself. Why do you ask? (joke)
&
B) What the -bleep- is the rationale behind Angenieux using that nomenclature
methodology?
*Probably a Gallic finger in the eye of their European Competitors. ie:Leica,
Zeiss, Schneider, et al
*That or it's some sort of Cinematic Industry standard-ish thing and they were
trying to trade on a Movie Lens schtick.
I am sincerely curious to know what the answer to Question B is, by the way. I
already know they answer to A!
Richard in Michigan
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From: George Lottermoser <imagist3@xxxxxxx>
To: "leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, January 11, 2011 7:36:56 PM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Anyone using Angenieux converted to N... over here?
In fact the lens is marked as 3 X 70 = 210 so 70 to 210 mm.
Ah the French of it all.
Regards,
George
(from iPad)
On Jan 11, 2011, at 18:23, Richard Ward <ilovaussiesheps@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Philippe,
> please pardon my ignorance, but I'm completely at a loss trying to figure
> out
>
> your statement: "By two I mean I have the 35 x 2, and the 70 x 3". I'm a
>fairly
>
> knowledgeable fellow and I'm completely not getting the jist of your
> abbreviations? acronyms? code? The best I can come up with is (using the
> adjective 'best' quite loosely!) is that 35x2 means a 35mm lens with an Æ?2
> maximum aperture, but on the other hand - who the heck ever heard of a 70mm
> Æ?3
> Lens! Certainly not me.
> Sincerely Befuddled
> Richard in Michigan
>
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> A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought.
> There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
> - Victor Hugo
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