Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:36 PM 07-10-97 +0100, Joe Berenbaum wrote: [snip] >...I'll be reporting on this problem in much more detail in a few months >time in this magazine. Meanwhile I suggest you run a careful focus check on >any lens you're considering buying, if you print with VC papers. I'd look >especially carefully at lenseswhich I report as having larger-than-average >amounts of longitudinal chromatic aberration in the visible spectrum." > >Interestingly, in this article's top ten lenses test results, the Rodenstock >Apo-Rodagon N 50mm/f2.8 has "worse than average red-green longitudinal >colour." Fascinating... > >> I recall these articles in Darkroom Photography, but I have the 50/2.8 Apo-Rodagon, and use a cheap Patterson grain magnifier with benefit of a blue filter, and I never get unsharp prints with VC papers. I guess I'm lucky. Dan C.