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Subject: Re: [Leica] A rant on Pop Photo tests
From: Dante A Stella <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:25:35 -0400
References: <200008222148.RAA08349@saruman.wizard.net>

>

You must have missed Erwin Puts' commentary on this.  He thinks that retrofocus
lenses have far greater aberration-correction potential than symmetrical lenses
do.

>    It's hard to believe that the Canon 35mm f/1.4 is better wide open than the
> 35mm Summilux f/1.4.  The Summilux can hang it's rear element as close to the
> focal plane as it likes, the Canon can't.  This restriction cannot make for a
> sharper lens.  Assuming both lenses were designed to deliver maximum
> performance, cost no object, the Leica lens, with fewer design restrictions,
> has got to be better.
>

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Dante Stella
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In reply to: Message from Bryant <tbryant@wizard.net> ([Leica] A rant on Pop Photo tests)