Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>At 12:22 PM 5/8/01 +0200, Christer Almqvist wrote: >> >>Very interesting results, beats MTF (or whatever they are called) >>curves. That test was the final nail in my 15mm Heliar's coffin. >>Confirmed what I had been suspecting >> >>Chris > > >This is why the Zeiss (Leica) 15mm Super-Elmar and the Zeiss 16mm Hologon >are $5000 plus lenses. > >I owned and used a 15mm Super-Elmar for over ten years. It is a fantastic >lens. Sharp corner to corner and very little falloff. No center filter needed. > >The Heliar is a few hundred bucks. What would anyone expect... ? > >Jim .... that some magazine tests had come to the same conclusion, but generally they did not. Chris - -- Christer Almqvist D-20255 Hamburg, Germany and/or F-50590 Regnéville-sur-Mer, France