The D.Zuiko 11-22 is only 485g, admittedly it is slower but it is also
a zoom. I would guess it's mostly a matter of Leica pushing as much
optical quality in as they can until they fill up their own larger
size, weight, cost budget goals.
-jeff
On 3/7/07, Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Fast wide angle lenses are big. Has there ever been a 24/1.4? My
> complaint before I got sucked into digital was that duplicating the
> shorter lenses for smaller format would be getting into exotic lens
> manufacture as an alternative for the cheaper lenses in the 35mm
> arsenal. This is an exotic pushing the envelope kind of lens.
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> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
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> On Mar 7, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Bernard Frangoulis wrote:
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> > Well... 510 grams! Rather on the heavy side ;-)
>
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