Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Learn to love your aberrations and other shortcomings. Yes, I like some and some are impossible for me to live with (today; who knows what tomorrow will bring). I shot for years with various pre-aspheric 35/1.4's. Pick and choose your aberrations. I now have an f/1 Nocti (my second, but I think I'll keep this one). I also had the f/1.2 but really never liked the pictures so it went fairly quickly after the f/1 came out. Things that bug me about lenses at times so that I don't take them out, and thus don't take pictures with them: Size and weight, insufficient close focussing, excess flare, lack of resolution and/or contrast, bad distortion, especially complex 'moustache' type, mechanical unreliability, bad coma and astigmatism when I need points, etc, etc. In the end I choose lenses based on types of usages and faults I can live with. I can live with Nocti f/1 faults often enough that the positive points outweigh them in the long haul. That's about it. Henning On 2012-01-24, at 4:09 PM, Marty Deveney wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Henning Wulff henningw at archiphoto.com