[Leica] TID>Blind Tests

[Alexey Merz <alexey@webcom.com>]

>Alexey Merz wrote:
>> The *first* thing that this Pentax/Nkion photographer of over 15 years
>> did upon aquisition of his M6, 35/1.4 ASPH, and 50/2 was to perform
>> blind A-B comparisons of these lenses with the AIS equivalents.

From: Bud Cook <budcook@ibm.net>:
>How about color differences?  Do you notice any?  In my experience with 
>many AI-S lenses, the differences in color transmission with Kodachrome 
>was quite obvious.

That's a good question. I did my tests on Velvia, and so it's possible
that such differences were swamped by the unsubtle way in which that 
emulsion handles color. I guess I don't know whether to atribute what
color differences I could see to color shifts versus the effects of 
contrast differences. Nothing too dramatic, though, at least to my eyes.
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