Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:14 PM 11/3/96 +0100, Magnus wrote: > >Zeiss has designed for maximum optical performance... > >Leica are renowned for optical performance... > >What is the *real* difference? > >What you are talking about - sure this is not true. There are two completely different things being discussed here. One is what the Carl Zeiss optical designers were striving to achieve. The other is the public perception of Leica lens performance. The main point is that Zeiss lenses are designed for bench-test performance and have always tested 'well'. Leica lenses, until the 1980's, weren't so designed, and did poorly on the same sorts of tests. Max Berek, through a simple trick, caused his lens designs to produce a final image which looked better than it was, and this is WHY Leica lenses are renowned for an optical performance which cannot be found on the test charts. As to your last sentence, it is gibberish. Perhaps something got lost in cyberspace. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!