Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:44 AM 12/29/96 -0800, Patrick Sobalvarro wrote: >The most immediately obvious quality of the lens is that, at the >apertures where I used it, it suffers from very marked coma. Bright >off-axis out-of-focus highlights (like Christmas tree lights) are >smeared in an arc about the center of the image. I don't find this >terribly unpleasant (I like it better than mirror-lens donuts, for >example), but it's quite noticeable -- Christmas tree lights become >triangular. > >The centers of the images are quite sharp, when I focused the camera >properly. These were quick shots of friends, where I had >scale-focused the camera first and then raised it to my eye, made a >quick attempt to focus, and shot in a couple of seconds. It was >indoors under available light at night, and at f1.5 and close up there >isn't much depth of field, so a number of the close shots were out of >focus. > >I don't notice any flare, even where there are bright lights shining >into the lens. > >Sharpness at the edges of the images may be quite a bit worse than at >the centers. I can't tell very well, because the lens was wide open >and I wasn't focusing on things at the edges. > Patrick Sounds like you got a dog -- none of mine have ever done this. Could you send me the serial number and a description of the factory logo from the lens ring? I'd like to know which plant was turning out trash in which years. Thanks in advance! Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!