Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes...you have a good point, and I apologize to the lug for my posts, inclusing the one I just sent a sew secs ago. I'm leaving this thread now. If anyone wants further information concerning my tests, and any future ones I may conduct, please email me in private. Dan C. At 03:57 PM 23-08-00 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote: >DR. BLACKTAPE CAN'T HELP BUT WONDERING... >...if there is some noxious chemical in the LUG air today that is causing >this thread to become quite so ugly? > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John >> Brownlow >> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 3:43 PM >> To: LUG >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Lens test >> >> >> on 23/8/00 3:12 pm, Dan Cardish at dcardish@microtec.net wrote: >> >> > Have you actually read any of Erwins reports? >> >> Yes. Erwin's tests measure a lot of things, but chief among them is >> resolving power. >> >> >> How impressed do you think the picture desk will be with your >> coke bottle >> >> pix? >> > >> > Apparently, if we are to believe you, they are impressed with your's, so >> > anything's possible. >> >> Where this came from I have no idea. I said I make big prints, that's all. >> Other people can judge my merits or demerits as a photographer. >> >> >> Your lens tests are pretty much the equivalent of driving four >> different >> >> cars at 40 miles an hour down a straight smooth road without >> changing gear >> >> or braking and then declaring there is nothing to choose >> between them apart >> >> from the trim. >> > >> > So who asked you to look at them? >> >> You put them up on the web and posted the URL here indicating it was a >> response to comments about Minolta optics (mine presumably). >> >> Quite what you think posting handheld mid-aperture jpeg shots >> from all these >> lenses is going to prove remains beyond me, but then admitting that one of >> them wasn't even correctly focused takes the biscuit. Maybe you >> should trade >> in all those lenses and buy some coke bottles... >> >> Signing off from this lunatic thread. >> >> >> -- >> Johnny Deadman >> >> http://www.pinkheadedbug.com >> >> >> > > >