Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Prior posts: ... Somehow the lenses have the ability to make the subject pop out from the background in an uncanny way. ... ... some inferior Japanese lenses are very sharp yet don't have the same emotive quality; rather it seems to be an ability to differentiate planes somehow or to somehow create the illusion of three dimensions in a two-dimensional medium more so than is true of other lenses. Rather than *specifications* Leica lenses truly do have *character*. As hard as that variable is to scientifically quantify and replicate, to the frustration of many, it is no less true despite what some would have us believe. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ My friends on the Nikon list often post detailed quantitative discusions of their favorite or most-hated lenses. As light bending is pure physics, and film processing is pure chemistry, there (by definition) is an objective explanation for the effects sketched out above. Can someone more knowledgable than I enlighten us? George R. Zachar