Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think too much a big deal is made about "software assistance" to get the best performance out of a lens. If the tradeoff means less weight, faster performance, less expensive or a combination of those is a good thing, assuming the lens is already designed to be the highest quality already. On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:32 PM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net < wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > Frank Filippone wrote: > > >>> > Or.... Why does/did Leica not support Phocus SW if they are trying to woo > away Hasselblad H series users?? > <<< > > Phocus is a Hasselblad product. They'd need Hasselblad's cooperation which > is unlikely. > > Gene Duprey wrote: > > >>> > They rely on Phocus to get the renowned Hasselblad image quality, which > kind > of implies their lenses are not as good as those of the old Zeiss lenses. > No arrogance intended, H's own literature tells you that while you can use > LR or PS, to get the image quality that they are known for you have to use > Phocus, which tells me their lenses are not as good as in the past. imho. > ;) > <<< > > As I understand it the optimization of some of the H lenses may include > more distortion or possibly lateral chromatic abberations, which can be > fixed in software (Phocus), in order to improve optical performance > parameters that software can't handle. I make no claims as to the > superiority or inferiority of this approach to optical quality... but I'd > be wary of being locked into proprietary software. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft? Windows? and Linux web and application > hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>