Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 23/8/00 3:48 pm, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote: > Yup. Pretty ironic, isn't it. You spend $210 trillion to own Leica lenses > and it don't mean squat when it comes right down to it - IF you mostly shoot > at the smaller apertures.....Now if you shoot wide open a lot, that's an > other matter...but of course then there is still the handheld question...... I dunno, BD. I shoot wide open a lot, but there's also the flare suppression question. I'm amazed at the ability of my 28/2.8 Elmarit to shoot into the sun. Also, on the handheld question, all of these factors multiply, so even if my hands are shaky I want a sharp lens. At f/8 I still think there is some difference between my Leica lenses and others I won, if not in sharpness then smoothness and that old fudge factor 'three dimensionality'. The flip side of all this is that past f/11 ALL lenses start to get real cruddy. Now owning leica glass and shooting it at f/16 or f/22... THAT'S a crime! - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com