[Leica] comparon

[ruben at rhodos.dk (Ruben)]

perhaps for "Soft" portrait pictures?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Cc: <rollei@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] comparon


> You should be able to use it as a loupe. Photographically it has no value.
> While it may be free of distortion, it has an appalling sharpness fall off
> toward the edges. Then there is the micro-contrast problem....
> Years, and years ago, I tested several lenses, a couple being Comparons,
> because I bought into the_moronic_assumption that closing a lens down
makes
> it as good as the _better_lenses. Of course, I'm now free of that kind of
> lunacy.
> S. Dimitrov
>
>
> > From: "Ruben" <ruben@rhodos.dk>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 06:43:14 +0100
> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> > Subject: [Leica] comparon
> >
> > I found my comparon 1:5,6 150 mm Schneider-Kreuznach series 12 557 664
lens
> > with a five blades optics - it used to sit on a reprocamera used to
> > reproduce line-art copyproofs and should as far as i know be rather free
of
> > distortion etc. Q: can I use this optics for anything else then a
> > reprocamera ? - has it any value? - would anyone like to buy or trade it
in
> > for something - or should I just forget about it -thanks Ruben
> >
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