Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]BD- You are absolutely right. I admit that good digital printing visualises the lens characters you mentioned. My point is whether we can see or "enjoy" character differences between, say, Summicron-R 50mm and Zeiss Planar 50mm, which I did in many if not all of the images in conventional prints. The images from these two lenses are comparable (hard to fault!) in terms of sharpness, contrast, microdetails, ... Nevertheless they just have different looks. The "raison d'etre" of Leica R for me is solely this subtle and trivial (as you might say) difference that is essentially irrelevant to the content of photographs. Is digital printing good enough in this particular regard? MIKIRO At 4:57 PM +0200 26/7/00, B. D. Colen wrote: >But Mikiro, good digital printing will most definitely show up many lens >characteristics, such as flare suppression, edge to edge sharpness, >contrast, light fall-off, etc. - micro detail may be a problem, but I would >argue - knowing virtually nothing about optics other than how to mount them >on my cameras :-) - that if you start with a really fine lens, your end >digital result will be better than if you don't. > >B. D. >