Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] rangefinder/SLR choices at 85mm
From: Rei Shinozuka <shino@ubspainewebber.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:37:31 -0400 (EDT)

> From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
> 
> The URL below will show three image's shot in the same place(facing opposite
> directions).  The guy was shot with a 75 Summilux wide open; in the original
> scan you can see deep into his iris; which is the last image. Even though I

both images are very striking.
the 75 image is astonishingly sharp for a wide open exposure.

- -rei

> over sharpened I hope that you can see the detail available in a fair
> enlargement.  The girl, my daughter, was shot with an 85 2.8 Sonnar;  while
> this is one of my favorite lenses it just doesn't have the fine detail of
> the Summilux.  It is unfortunate that a file small enough to download just
> doesn't hold fine detail
> 
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=144793

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