Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/16

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Another (new) 15mm for Leica M (39mm) , the Panomigon 15mm f22
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:00:46 -0700
References: <v04011703b5967f631d7d@[209.53.32.129]>

At 8:42 AM +0200 7/16/00, Jean-Claude Berger wrote:
>>From what I understand, the Panomigon is a "concept lens" (à la concept-car)
>to demonstrate the ACV usability. ACV is more or less painting little black
>dots on the edge of internal lenses in order to compensate vignetting.
>
>--
>Jean-Claude Berger (jcberger@jcberger.com)
>Systems and RDBMS consultant (MCSE)
>Lyon, France
>http://www.jcberger.com
>
>
>> An effective aperture (with ACV, whatever that is!) of f/22, and at best
>> geometric aperture of f/11 doesn't bode well for either practicality nor
>> optical performance.

Sounds like a dithered center filter (the dots MUST be denser in the center
to work, right?).

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