Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is really wild! I opened four browsers to full screen, and brought up one image in each of them. This makes it easy to flip back and forth between them - kind of like a blink comparator in astronomy. The first thing I noticed was what appears to be a massive difference in depth of field. Compare the detail in the hedge and the mullions in the front window of the house, in images C and D. It looks like they were taken a stop and a half apart! Part of this is that the point of focus is further back in C, but still I wouldn't have expected this kind of difference. A shows a lot of ni-sen bokeh - doughnut highlights in the trees behind her. To me this is the hallmark of Nikkors, so I'd be willing to say A was the Nikkor. B feels like a Leica lens to me - it could be either of them. On C and D I have no opinion. But, as others have noted, the test really needs one or more tripods and enlarged image sections. Paul