Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ross Trinol (was Reid)
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:52:02 -0500

At 06:14 PM 1999-02-12 +0000, Alex Hurst wrote:
>The Ross Trinol was my first ever long-focus LTM lens back in '66. Very
>soft at full bore, and vignetted like crazy when stopped down. I swapped it
>for a 90/4 Elmar as soon as I could afford the extra cash. Now that was a
>very crisp little lens.

That's interesting:  mine is neither especially soft nor vignettes
noticeably.  Mine is certainly above a lot of other three-element lenses I
have used.

Marc

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