Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/29
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Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu> typed:
>Same things, have-vs.-have nots, law of diminishing
>returns, subjective comparisons because none of the Leica folks
>will subject themselves to an A-B test, might prove they're loonies,
>ya know.....
The *first* thing that this Pentax/Nkion photographer of over 15 years
did upon aquisition of his M6, 35/1.4 ASPH, and 50/2 was to perform
blind A-B comparisons of these lenses with the AIS equivalents.
At the widest apertures the Leica stuff won for resolution, contrast,
and flare supression. The 35 Leica was better at 1.4 than the Nikon
was at 2.8. In the field (now, based on ~50 rolls of film) I get maybe
twice the number of sharp exposures at 1/15 and 1/8 as I do with my
Nikons. At some point perhaps I'll post some 60x enlargements of
regions of the slides, set up so that the viewer can do his/her own
A/B tests. Of course, at 5.6 and smaller, there was not much difference
between the lenses; but I think we all know that already.
- -Alexey
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