Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 15 Sep 98, at 18:39, Eric Welch wrote: > At 01:43 PM 9/15/98 -0400, you wrote: > > >Is it also true that the macro lens produces a flatness of field not > >particularly favourable for portraits or "people" shots? Would the 80 or > >90 be a better choice? > > To assume that flatness of field is somehow a problem is a mistaken > notion. All lens makers make their lenses as flat of field as possible. > It's just with Macros, it's more important than otherwise. But that > doesn't mean that it's any less important with other lenses. They just > have to balance that against other things. -- > Eric, I suspect that Arturo's mention of the "flatness of field" of the 100mm macro lens in this instance was probably more a reference to the apparent perspective compression produced when a portrait is taken from a greater distance through a longer lens? Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 Fax +61-2-9554-9259 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours audiob@ozemail.com.au