Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 50 mm f/1.4
From: "Margaret Jeffcoat" <margaret01@excelonline.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:24:20 -0500
References: <200101301855.TAA20936@gip.u-picardie.fr> <3A7787F1.E99911A2@umich.edu>

Well wow, did you notice that this is pretty much a photo finish across the
board ( no pun intended). Why don't we all go shoot some film and not worry
so about something that we have "No" control over. Don't we ever get tired
of this "My Daddy can beat up yours".
Cheers Wilber
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Dante A. Stella <dante@umich.edu>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] 50 mm f/1.4


>
> SUCKAAAAZ.
>
>     Has a single person noticed that the Nikon lens is a Series E 50/1.8
and not
> an AIS 1.4?  Perhaps the devil is in the details.The Nikon has only
marginally
> less performance at center wide open and marginally less corner
performance at
> f/5.6.  And this is Nikon's cheapest 50mm ever.  If I were Leitz, I would
have
> been a little embarrassed.
>
>     Who here gets as much as 50lp/mm from his system?   If you can't clear
this
> hurdle, all bets are off - since you wouldn't be able to tell the
difference in
> practice between any of these.
>
> Dante
>
> allan burned wrote:
>
> > Hello luggers,
> >
> > it turns out from "modern photographer" tests that the best ever 50 mm
f/1.4
> > is an olympus OM!
> >
> > Lens            Resolution             Resolution
Distortion
> > Source
> >                wide open           at f/5.6             (pincushion
> >                 center  corner       center  corner         or barrel)
> >
> > Zuiko 50/1.4     55 VG   49 Exc    69 VG   62 Exc    0.9% barrel    MP
11/85
> >       same          55 VG   49 Exc    69 VG   62 Exc    0.9% barrel
MP 6/87
> > Canon 50/1.4    50 G    45 Exc    70 Exc  63 Exc    0.46% barrel   MP
7/86
> > Nikon E 50/1.8  52 VG   33 VG     66 VG   46 G      <1%             MP
1/83
> > Leica 50/1.4      54 VG   38 Exc    76 Exc  48 G      0.47% barrel   MP
9/87
> > Zeiss   50/1.4    45 G    40 Exc    72 Exc  64 Exc    0.92% barrel   MP
1/88
> >
> > what do you think of that (I'm sleepin' down at the landromat...)?
>

Replies: Reply from "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@home.com> (Re: [Leica] 50 mm f/1.4)
In reply to: Message from allan burned <ab-lnc@u-picardie.fr> ([Leica] 50 mm f/1.4)
Message from "Dante A. Stella" <dante@umich.edu> (Re: [Leica] 50 mm f/1.4)