Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1995/11/03

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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Minolta 28/2.8 M lens
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@gp.magick.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 23:29:48 PST
 
** Reply to note from fred@csgi.com 11/02/95  8:04pm GMT  
> but I have never seen a lens from anyone anywhere any 
> time that even approached the contrast introduced by a contrasty  
film.

That is true. First of all, a lens's contrast and the contrast of a  
film are two different things. A contrasty lens does not increase the  
D-max and D-min of a film. It only makes the tonal separations more  
obvious, and opens up shadows. It doesn't blow out highlights. Bad  
processing does that.




Regards,

Eric Welch
Grants Pass, OR