Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The edge softness of a pre ASPH is something you see with an 11x14 prints. Its not a problem for picture taking. People used them for years. You can take a picture wide open and run it in the paper or magazine. Its a different category of thing than the triplet in which the whole image at the edges completely falls apart and you'd have to crop it off. -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > From: Philip Forrest <photo.forrest at earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:33:26 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] The smallest M lens > > Just like with the pre-asph Lux. > Which happens to be one of my very favorite lenses ever. > > Phil Forrest > > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:28:47 -0500 > Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >> Take a look at his shot it looks like it was taken with a Holga. >> Of course your right about much of this glass not having stellar >> corner performance like cutting edge ASPH modern glass does but that >> is a far cry from the way the triplet image totally falls apart at >> the sides visible even in this rather low rez example. As in you're >> reading the words on those signs and they fall apart. It looks like >> its out of focus. But in the center its sharp. Its like an effect. >> > > > > -- > philforrest.wordpress.com > gallery.leica-users.org/v/philforrest > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information