Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Which Ultra-Wide, Heliar 15mm or Heliar 12mm
From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 19:27:24 -0700
References: <200105052144.f45LiS210753@rakitzis.com> <p05010405b71b412ff9e7@[209.53.33.7]> <3AF5B8DF.75A940FF@rabiner.cncoffice.com>

At 1:49 PM -0700 5/6/01, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>  ><Snip>
>>
>>  In practice this is easy to see. Use a tele lens like a 200 wide open
>>  and at f/16, and then use a lens of focal length 21 or less wide open
>>  and at f/16. The loss in quality with the short lenses is quite
>>  dramatic compared with that of the longer lenses.
>>
>>  --
>>      *            Henning J. Wulff
>As in like a shot of something flat like a brick wall?
>
>mark r

Probably, but also with slightly more exciting stuff stuff :-). For 
reproceability, try it with scenics, focussed on infinity. It would 
show up just as easily in portraits, but it's harder to take shots 
that don't have other variables to cloud the issue.

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