Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT MF RF
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:08:24 -0500

Austin Franklin jotted down the following:
>>
>> Someone else wrote:
>>
>> In the end, the marginal difference in lens character is nothing compared to
>> the effects of light control, camera handling, film and processing, etc.,
>> etc.  You can get great, great, sharp images with any of this stuff -- so
>> much so that a negligible increase in sharpness from one lens to another is
>> rather insignificant.
>> 
> Sharpness is not the only factor, and beyond a certain point it is, as you
> even said, a negligible factor.
 
I thought the negligé factor was only relevant in glamour photography? ;)

M.

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