Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/18
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At 06:10 PM 18/01/00 -0500, you wrote:
>If a photographer only uses negative films, and is evaluating two lenses,
>why should he bother using anything *but* negative films to make the
>comparison? Why should that photographer care a whit if one lens might
>produce better chromes than the other?
>
>Dan C.
Because if it can produce good chromes it can produce good negs.
You cannot judge the quality of a camera lens by looking at prints.... you
can only just a lens by the image it produces ON THE FILM.
You mask the control variables (the lens and film) when you
introduce the enlarger light source, the enlarger lens, the printing paper,
the chemistry and the technical skill of the printer.... all of which will
affect the quality of a print. Not so with transparencies.
... at the very least, if you are a colour neg user, evaluate the neg under
magnification... not a print from the neg. Regardless of how nice that
print may be, your lens is not %100 responsible for the outcome.
Greg Locke St. John's, Newfoundland
locke@straylight.ca http://www.straylight.ca/locke
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