Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 90mm recommendations: Apo-Lanthar question
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 11:45:11 -0500

Jesse Hellman jotted down the following:

> Regarding Rob's comment that red focuses at a plane different from that
> of other colors, does this mean that there would be little use for an
> apo lens in black and white printing on variable contrast papers, where
> red does not register and the emulsions are sensitive to green and blue?

I asked this question about a year ago and received a storm of answers from
people who adamantly maintained that APO enlarger lenses provided much
better results that their non-APO counterparts, yet no one was able to
provide a rational explanation as to why this would be the case.

M.

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