Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:50 PM 19-11-97 PST, you wrote: > >In his books _Collecting and Using Classic Cameras_ and _Collecting and >Using Classic SLR's_, Ivor Matanle talks about the "roundness" that can >be seen in images taken by older lenses (before the computer designed >multicoated lenses of the 1960's and 1970's I assume). > >I've stared at these images in his books and I really can't see what he >is talking about. > >Any ideas? > >-Dave I have the same book. Most of the pictures in it that he so lovingly refers to look like that have bad cases of flare. Of course it is difficult to make judgements about photographs that have gone through a not particularly careful book printing, but I didn'y find his photos very appealing. Dan C.