Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan Cardish wrote: > > How can a lens be *too sharp*? For the example I provided, you could argue that the 100mm Macro is too sharp for portraiture. As I see it, it boils down to application area. Any lens, or anything else for that matter, is designed with an intended use in mind. The 100mm Macro lens in the R-range is designed for macro work, although it can be used for other types of photography. The 90mm APO Summicron-M ASPH is obviously not designed for macro work, considering its intended camera. The most common usage of 90mm f2 on an M camera is, to the best of my knowledge, portraiture. Many have commented on the 90/f2's very flattering, slightly soft rendition at the widest setting. So, I thought it a little odd that Leica would deliberately take that out of the design, and make the comparison to the 100mm R-Macro that they did. It's no big deal: Like I say, I'm not about to rush out and buy one. I could care less about what Leica introduces, since I have no hope in hell of affording the current stuff. I just thought it a little odd. M. - -- Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Just DOHH it! SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho