Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:48 PM 2/20/99 -0800, you wrote: > Unless you have analysed these side by side with the same films at >the same apertures it would be a gut feel more than anything else. I'd trust 40 years plus experience over most people's tests any day of the week. Sometimes people can do the analysis of the laboratory performance of a lens and yet they couldn't take a decent picture to save their lives. What gives them the ability to determine for the rest of us what is going to be useful in the field? Actually, any of those lenses would meet anybody's standards if they weren't being compared side by side, I suppose. So it's academic, unless there is field experience with both or all three lenses that the person then comes back and says "I prefer this lens for this reason." And sure it will be subjective. It's insane to pick a camera line for their 400 2.8 unless that is the primary lens to be used. Otherwise, it ought to be picked simply because it fits on the dang cameras I own. So you are right, people who use the lenses will have the advantage. Ted is one of those people. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch The Devil whispered behind the leaves, It's pretty, but is it Art? - Rudyard Kipling