Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/06

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Subject: [Leica] Subjective/objective lens evaluations
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 02:45:09

At 03:06 06/04/98 +0200, you wrote:
>At 21:47 05.04.1998 +0200, Erwin wrote:
>>Subjective evaluations are quite important
>>and valuable in its own right, but do not mix up the two strands of
>>evaluation (methodology versus impression).
>
>You know, that I truelly respect and appriciate your opinion, Erwin.
>I'm just asking myself: If the physical parameters support one side,
>and the emotional view supports another side - isn't the test missing
>something essential which is vivid to human perception ?
>Sometimes it comes to my mind, that you may decribe the advantages of
>proteines in a mushroom and forget it's deadly poinson. *This is not
>a flame*, I'm just asking, why human perception may be so different from 
>certain physical parameters.
<snip>
>Alf

What would make very interesting reading would be a collection of
subjective views of the optical character of Leica lenses. It would make a
very good complementary reading to go along with the Erwin's objective
comments. Maybe somebody will compile this...

Joe Berenbaum