Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Berek and the Leica Glow
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 23:34:41
 
At 13:01 20/03/98 -0800, you wrote:
>The 'Leica Glow' dates from the Prewar era, when Leitz could not
>afford to produce lenses optically
>competitive with those from Zeiss and Voigtlander.  Therefore, Max
>Berek tweaked his designs to exaggerate the softness of the
>out-of-focus images to, in turn, exagerrate the sharpness of the
>in-focus images. The result is a final image where the in-focus image
>sort of 'pops out' of the picture.

What I wonder then, is- is it a reasonable assumption that I might find the
"Leica glow" in a 1930's Elmar that was made for a different make of camera
and different format, such as a Nagel?



Joe Berenbaum