Anyone checked this out yet?

[Lucas Rijnders (Privé)]

Op Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:49:23 +0200 schreef Kostas Kavoussanakis  
<kavousan at epcc.ed.ac.uk>:

> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Lucas Rijnders (Priv?) wrote:
>
>> More to the point: Boz lists details for an M35/1.4. When compared to  
>> the
>> M50/1.4 you see three more elements, two more groups, more complicated
>> construction, much larger and almost twice as heavy...
>
> Things have moved on since then, I am sure...

Maybe, but the DA14 is not spectacularly different from the various 15mm  
lenses. 1mm shorter, half a stop faster, a bit shorter but with a larger  
diameter. It is definately larger and heavier than the equivalent lenses,  
the A and FA 20/2.8.

I'm fairly sure a DA35/1.4 would need to be 58mm thread, and would need to  
be asymmetrical, and therefore optically worse or more complex (or both)  
compared to a symmetrical 50mm.

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Regards,
Lucas