Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Speaking of 'crons. I still kick myself for getting rid of my first generation 3 cam 50mm 'cron-R. I still have the elpros for it. As I'm a Rolleinar user, I don't find the elpros inconveinent. S. Dimitrov On Mar 9, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Bob Palmieri wrote: > Folks - > > When I was up in Rochester in the 70's I studied "Modern Camera > Design" (as they called the course) with a heavy guy from Kodak named > Rudolph Kingslake. I recall that he was quite enamored of that 8 > element 35 'cron. In fact, he wrote the chapter on lenses in the > Encyclopedia of Photography, and I believe he used more photographic > examples from that particular lens than any other. > > I also recall that the MTF charts seem to indicate that it outperforms > the 4th gen stopped down, but is considerably worse wide open. > > Bob Palmieri > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Slobodan Dimitrov http://sdimitrovphoto.com