Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Curvature of Field
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 21:06:22 -0800
 
At 02:43 PM 1/26/98 -0500, you wrote:
>At 01:21 PM 1/27/98 EST, Tom Shea wrote:
>>Fortunately, from my perspective, the newer Leica lenses seem to be
>addressing
>>the curvature of field issue.  
>  
>There are folks who LIKE wide-angle lenses to have marked curvature of
>field due to the nature of wide-angle photography:  quite often, the
>picture has close-in sides and far-away centers, so curvature allows a
>picture crisp and sharp from corner to corner.
>
>Marc
>

I, for one, subscribe to this (what Marc just described). So what do other
people use wide angle lenses for?

Jim