Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] spherical aberrations was more d.o.f. with asph?
From: Johnny Deadman <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 11:03:29 +0100

on 5/6/00 6:54 pm, Bud Cook at budcook@attglobal.net wrote:

> Spherical aberration seem to be like even harmonic distortion in amplifiers.
> It's not irritating and in fact, it can be pleasing.

Yes!!!!! Absolutely spot on.

Now what I really want is a lens that is as sharp wide open as my lux asph,
but has the spherical aberration of the pre-asph lux in the out of focus
areas. THAT, my friends, would be a Lens.



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