Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<< So, although more sharp, the current Summicron has lost parts of its abilities. >> Yes, but the question is whether one wants these abilities that have been lost. To me these abilities are the abilities to produce low contrast, fuzzy photos with lots of abberations murking about. I usually don't want these, but sometimes they are quite splendid. The point, however, is that if Leica could have produced well corrected, high resolution, high contrast lenses in the past, they would have. The softness of the old lenses was not intended - they just could not do any better technically. Tom Shea