[Leica] Re: Advice needed on 35mm lens for Leica M

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

This discussion reminds me very much of the arguments among audio 
enthusiasts at the beginning of the era of solid state (transistor) 
equipment. Various brands of vacuum-tube audio equipment were held up as 
"sounding better" than solid-state audio.

Over time, various engineers, most notably Bob Carver and David Hafler, 
managed to design custom electronic filters that could take the output of a 
distortion-free solid-state audio amplifier and apply minor distortions to 
make it sound like this or that brand of vacuum-tube audio gear.

I'm sure that, if it ever matters, someone will develop a Photoshop plugin 
that can take a picture taken with a modern aspheric lens and distort it, 
ever so slightly, until it looks as if it had been taken with an old lens 
that had good glow.