Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And if he stops short you will sufficate. > ---------- > From: Eric Welch[SMTP:ewelch@ponyexpress.net] > Reply To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Sent: Saturday, February 20, 1999 7:51 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] long lens tests > > At 02:48 PM 2/20/99 -0800, you wrote: > > Unless you have analysed these side by side with the same films at > >the same apertures it would be a gut feel more than anything else. > > I'd trust 40 years plus experience over most people's tests any day of the > > week. Sometimes people can do the analysis of the laboratory performance > of > a lens and yet they couldn't take a decent picture to save their lives. > What gives them the ability to determine for the rest of us what is going > to be useful in the field? > > Actually, any of those lenses would meet anybody's standards if they > weren't being compared side by side, I suppose. So it's academic, unless > there is field experience with both or all three lenses that the person > then comes back and says "I prefer this lens for this reason." And sure it > > will be subjective. It's insane to pick a camera line for their 400 2.8 > unless that is the primary lens to be used. Otherwise, it ought to be > picked simply because it fits on the dang cameras I own. > > So you are right, people who use the lenses will have the advantage. Ted > is > one of those people. > > Eric Welch > St. Joseph, MO > http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > The Devil whispered behind the leaves, It's pretty, but is it Art? - > Rudyard Kipling >