Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Having a lens that is super sharp in your camera bag is a very good thing. You can always lower the sharpness on the lens with a Softar filter, but when you need razzor sharp chromes use it without a filter. This way you have the best of both worlds. You can remove sharpness with a filter but nothing you can put on your lens will add sharpness thats not there already. Fred Jackson jackson105@juno.com On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 16:24:41 +0200 "Martin V. Howard" <marho@ida.liu.se> writes: >Dan Cardish wrote: >> >> How can a lens be *too sharp*? > >For the example I provided, you could argue that the 100mm Macro is >too sharp for portraiture. > >As I see it, it boils down to application area. Any lens, or anything >else for that matter, is designed with an intended use in mind. The >100mm Macro lens in the R-range is designed for macro work, although >it >can be used for other types of photography. The 90mm APO Summicron-M >ASPH is obviously not designed for macro work, considering its >intended >camera. The most common usage of 90mm f2 on an M camera is, to the >best of my knowledge, portraiture. Many have commented on the 90/f2's >very flattering, slightly soft rendition at the widest setting. So, I >thought it a little odd that Leica would deliberately take that out of >the design, and make the comparison to the 100mm R-Macro that they >did. > >It's no big deal: Like I say, I'm not about to rush out and buy one. >I >could care less about what Leica introduces, since I have no hope in >hell of affording the current stuff. I just thought it a little odd. > > >M. > >-- >Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | >Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Just DOHH it! >SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, >+----------------+ >Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]