RE: [Leica] Lens test

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

DR. BLACKTAPE CAN'T HELP BUT WONDERING...
...if there is some noxious chemical in the LUG air today that is causing
this thread to become quite so ugly?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John
> Brownlow
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 3:43 PM
> To: LUG
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Lens test
>
>
> on 23/8/00 3:12 pm, Dan Cardish at dcardish@microtec.net wrote:
>
> > Have you actually read any of Erwins reports?
>
> Yes. Erwin's tests measure a lot of things, but chief among them is
> resolving power.
>
> >> How impressed do you think the picture desk will be with your
> coke bottle
> >> pix?
> >
> > Apparently, if we are to believe you, they are impressed with your's, so
> > anything's possible.
>
> Where this came from I have no idea. I said I make big prints, that's all.
> Other people can judge my merits or demerits as a photographer.
>
> >> Your lens tests are pretty much the equivalent of driving four
> different
> >> cars at 40 miles an hour down a straight smooth road without
> changing gear
> >> or braking and then declaring there is nothing to choose
> between them apart
> >> from the trim.
> >
> > So who asked you to look at them?
>
> You put them up on the web and posted the URL here indicating it was a
> response to comments about Minolta optics (mine presumably).
>
> Quite what you think posting handheld mid-aperture jpeg shots
> from all these
> lenses is going to prove remains beyond me, but then admitting that one of
> them wasn't even correctly focused takes the biscuit. Maybe you
> should trade
> in all those lenses and buy some coke bottles...
>
> Signing off from this lunatic thread.
>
>
> --
> Johnny Deadman
>
> http://www.pinkheadedbug.com
>
>
>