EXACTLY at the moment I was reading Richard Schaetzl's posting about Andreas
Feininger's passing, I switched to the Sunday morning news program on NPR, and
they were playing an interview with him!
My best-remembered Feininger photos were his "scientific" photos of animal
skeletons and the like. They were beautiful. I also well-remember a sequence of
shots in one of his books that showed how focal length alters only image size
and not perspective.
"The 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M Aspherical was really bizarre, with its concave front
element."
The Infinity Stylus Zoom 80 Wide DLX ("the little camera with the big name")
also has a concave front element. Has someone discovered a new way of designing
lenses?
It seems that independent lens makers are moving in the direction of supplying
lenses _only_ for AF cameras. This was brought home forcefully when I noticed an
ad for the new Vivitar Series 1 28-210 zoom. It's available only for AF mounts.
This is both disappointing and surprising. You'd think there would be enough
owners of manual-focus cameras to justify producing these lenses in those
mounts. And the extra sales would help amortize development costs and keep the
price down.
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