Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/06

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Subject: Re: 35/1.4 ASPH, 75/1.4, coma & Leica after-sales support
From: "Richard W. Hemingway" <n5xrd@telepath.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 14:45:13 -0600
 
At 10:06 1997-01-06 EST, you wrote:

Kevin:

[snip]
>After reading Dick's experience, I tried a similar experiment with my 
>75/1.4.
>At f/1.4 the Christmas lights on the house across the street showed this 
>75mm
>to display a little coma in the corners.  I was a little discouraged since I 
>had
>read several descriptions of the lens that said things like "virtually no 
>coma"
>or "coma is not noticable in practice".  I guess the key words here are
>"virtually" and "in practice".  I've seen similar Leica propaganda 

I, also, have a 75/1.4 - I'll have to try this on it!!

Dick Hemingway
Norman, OK