Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Olympus 90/2 macro is legendary. It has one of the creamiest bokeh ever http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/tn/sisters-2.jpg.html and as sharp as anything, BUT at wide open, it's no contest, the Leica 90/2 AA beats it by a mile. I shoot wide open a lot, so the wide open performance is critical... much more so than Bokeh: a good picture with a good boken may make it a great picture, but a bad picture with a great boken is still a bad picture :-) At 06:21 AM 11/18/2004, John Collier wrote: >... >Have you ever used the Leica lenses with aspherical elements? There is one >heck of a difference between the 21, 35, 50 and 90 aspherical lenses and >their non-aspherical counter parts. The asphericals are amazingly crisp >and clear wide open. I think the use of the suffix "-ASPH" is pretty >restrained. IMO they should have the suffix "- F***ING AMAZING DUDE". >... // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)