Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Is there only one version, optically, of this lens? I have the series 7.5 version. I assume the later lenses are have only filter mount changes? Thanks. Roland At 07:51 AM 8/5/96 PDT, you wrote: > >"At 06:59 PM 8/2/96 -0400, you wrote: > >>generation lens 98mm, and the third 116mm. I believe the first-generation >>lens' center resolution figure of 280mm was the highest the Laboratory had >>ever encountered. > >Then they never encountered the 180 Apo telyt. It has, according to U.S. >Navy tests I saw once, a center resolution of higher than 400 and edges were >375. No wonder people think they are consistent to the edges. Only Tech Pan >film has a hope of discerning a difference, and even then, testing technique >would have to be laboratory quality. > >================== >Eric Welch >Grants Pass Daily Courier >NPPA Region 11 JIB Chair" > >Seconded. Without the benefit (?) of resolution charts, pictures taken with >the 180mm Apo Tely-R f/3.4 just jump out at you. This is one impressive >lens, and available at decent prices on the second hand market. > >Thomas >