Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dave Rodgers..... 105 El Nikkor or the APO El Nikkor? The 105 regular is rather a good but not especially great lens..... the 80 mm APO Rodagons should be better, but your head must be higher, and you might be getting some vibration that is upsetting you.......???? I do rememerb there was an earlier and later version of the ROdagins.... difference and reason escape me, but the new APO ROdagon N lenses are truly spectacular, and every bit as good as the APO Componon HM lenses.... There are ranges of enlargement over which these lenses are optimized...... I do not have the figures, but we all can overuse the lens in ways that do not optimize the best features..... I had a 170 APO El Nikkor that performed no better than my 150 COmponon-S..... The APO was to work best at a n enlargement of 2x precisely, but I routinely make 4x prints..... so the 150 was the better lens.....I sold the 170..... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html