Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/14

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Subject: [Leica] optical performance of the t-elmar 135
From: Dominique PELLISSIER <pelliss@droit-eco.u-nancy.fr>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 21:58:25 +0100
 
In the Leica M compendium, Eastland wrote (p.62) :
"The lens (tele-elmar 135)is unsurpassed in its class for optical
performance and at full aperture it is still one of the best lenses in the
entire leica system".
The same judgment appears in Laney (Leica lens practice, p.188) and, of
course, in the official leica literature.
Now the french photographic review "Chasseur d'images" has recently tested
the lens and concluded that the old optical formula gives only "good
results" (in terms of MTF measure)far away the standard of quality of Leica.
Where is the truth ?