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Subject: [Leica] Don't Trust Everything You Read On The Internet, or: 2 Myths of the Biogon Lens
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:45:54 -0700
References: <8105bdcccb704beb9aa14f3715136733@WhizzEXM01.whizz.org> <D15F254E.3857D%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Hey Mark, no one says about anything about the superiority of one lens
design over the other. I just wrote to dispel a couple myths :-)

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> This lens diagram is superior to that lens diagram because see those little
> shapes? Those shapes are bad! You want to know why those little shapes are
> bad? Because the tooth fairly told me last night she was on a cigarette
> break and she stopped off and visited my pillow as I was dropping off to
> sleep.
> A totally symmetrical lens is better than a near symmetrical lens really?
> Says who? No one here even begins to know or care. Does it matter? Do we
> just make up stuff as we go along and everyone goes along?
> The intricacies of lens design is not the same thing as the intricacies  of
> our pawing off our latest camera system on eBay as we bid for a new one.
> Lens design is a science. Not an hobby.  You don't Google/Bing it for ten
> minutes and think you know something about it.
>
>
>
> --
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photographer
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>
>
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In reply to: Message from john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster) ([Leica] Don't Trust Everything You Read On The Internet, or: 2 Myths of the Biogon Lens)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Don't Trust Everything You Read On The Internet, or: 2 Myths of the Biogon Lens)