Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > An off axis street light does not introduce coma to the lens like it would > on a Summicron > or lux is what I think I recall reading about it for one. The Noctilux has tons of coma, what it lacks is internal reflections or ghosting - what, combined, most photographers call "flare". The Summicron and Summilux have less aberrations (including coma) but more flare. http://leica-users.org/v31/msg14554.html None of this matters if you don't care, or don't see the abberrations or don't know what the results of the aberrations look like. I see them because I look for them and have gone out of my way to learn what various aberrations look like in a print. Some of them produce effects I like, some I live with, some I only notice if I go looking for them. Marty