Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Emanuel-Temp_Lowi wrote: >In fact, it is this test that I was referring to in my post of several days >ago. >I was just a teenager at the time, already into Leicas, and was astonish= ed >at what seemed even then to be evidence of a dip in optical quality (in >this case, resolution) in the interest of economizing on production cost= s >(no more aspherical element). The Modern Photography test tables showed >this pretty clearly. This was also, IMHO, one of the first examples of size >increases in Leica M-lenses, a trend that continues today. >I'd love to see a copy of that test again. I have it in french. (Coedition from Phot'Argus, Paris and Modern Photography N-Y) Lucien BELGIUM