Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yup. Pretty ironic, isn't it. You spend $210 trillion to own Leica lenses and it don't mean squat when it comes right down to it - IF you mostly shoot at the smaller apertures.....Now if you shoot wide open a lot, that's an other matter...but of course then there is still the handheld question...... > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Larry > Kopitnik > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 3:32 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: re: [Leica] Lens test > > > >>>>>>>>>> > It has been repeated so often, that at 5.6 all current and > well corrected lenses perform very well and whatever differences in fine > detail rendition and micro contrast are available, the handheld > shooting, by > vibration and focusing inaccuracy will degrade these differences. > <<<<<<<<<< > > So if I shoot most often around f/5.6 or so, and I shoot probably 90% > of the time handheld -- and this is how I shoot, by the way -- there > is little to no meaningful optical advantage to my using Leica lenses > over other top brands. At least that's how I'm interpreting the > above. Am I interpreting correctly? > > Larry >