I'm not sure of the math, but I thought a 1.2 was one-half stop faster than
a 1.4 lens...? The numbers are not linear, but that's as far as my
twice-flunked Intro to Calculus will take me... if I could of learned math,
I could have been a engineer instead of a writer <g>
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
on 12/4/03 6:14 PM, Moose at olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I can see an advantage in going from f2 to f1.2, a full stop, in the
> wide and tele ranges, but I never could see the photographic point of
> the f1.2 50mm lenses. For bragging rights, sure, but otherwise, 1/3 stop
> over f1.4 ain't much to get excited about.
>
> Moose
>
> Skip Williams wrote:
>
>> There's a new, 35/1.2 from Cosina/Voigtlander, introduced this year. That's
>> the only f/1.2 lens south of a 50mm that I've ever heard of.
>>
>> There is also an 85/1.2 Zeiss lens that was produced for the Contax SLR mount
>> (limited production).
>>
>> I haven't heard of any other maker with an f/1.2 lens outside of the "normal"
>> ~50-60mm range.
>>
>
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