Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:00 AM 11/9/96 -0400, you wrote: >At 06:20 PM 9/10/96 -0700, Stephen Gandy wrote: > >>Also the latest Summicrons are marginally sharper than the earlier ones. > >Hmm. Not certain this is true. In any event, the first, eight-element, >lens is probably a happier lens for use on colour slides and is an all-round >fine performer. When Leica reduced the number of elements to lower >production costs, the compromise was a marginal reduction in quality. Do you have any evidence to substantiate this? > Dan Cardish <dcardish@spherenet.com> <http://www.spherenet.com/dcardish/photo.htm>