Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Perhaps, but soft is for when you want make it such, and not because it's all you got. S. Dimitrov > From: "Ruben" <ruben@rhodos.dk> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:12:35 +0100 > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] comparon > > 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information