Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 6/1/01 11:46 AM, Steve LeHuray at icommag@toad.net wrote: > That looks a bit better to my eye. My questions is (because I only use B&W > with the 35/1.4) is the 35/1.4 ASPH that much better than the pre-ASPH at > wide-open? I had always thought the biggest failing of the pre-ASPH was > flare from bright light while shooting at 1.4. massively better. night and day the pre-asph did indeed flare like mad but also wide open it was *extremely* soft. Nice pictorially in some circumstances but just no rendition of fine detail whatsoever wide open. Technically I think a combination of coma and spherical aberrations, 'classic' but sometimes frustrating. Much softer in my experience than say the 50/1.4 wide open. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com