Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]After I got my Summicron Asph, my b+w negatives have more shadow detail than they used to have. Has anybody else had similar experience? Until recently I have been shooting Delta 100 at e.i. 200 to avoid to long exposures, and as I did not feel I wanted to open my pre-asph to more than 5,6 unless I was really forced to. And the winter light in northern Germany is not all that bright, so I pushed a bit when developing. With the asph Summicron I have no problem shooting at 2.8 (provided the reduced d.o.f. does not pose a problem), so I have started setting the meter at e.i. 100. I really like the richer negatives. Now the problem: I have two non-asph lenses. What do I do? Shoot at 100 when using the non-asph and lose sharpness due to camera shake, or shoot at 200 with my asph and lose shadow detail. Or buy two new lenses. How do I finance this? Any advice greatly appreciated. Chris - -- Christer Almqvist D-20255 Hamburg, Germany and/or F-50590 Regnéville-sur-Mer, France