Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/03

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Subject: RE: [Leica] the 90% rule-long, rambling BS from Walt
From: "Gerd Heuser" <dr.heuser@gmx.net>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 19:37:19 +0100

Nowadays it is sometimes a little bit confusing. Since modern minilabs like
the Fuji Frontier use digital techniques and sharpen the images before
printing the differences disappear to a certain extent. It happens quite
often now that an owner of a cheap compact camera says: "Why use a Leica
when the results are comparable?" And the Fuji prints up to 8 x 11.5 (as to
my knowledge)

Gerd

>
>
> I just discovered the same thing this week with the new Zeiss 100mm f/2.8
> Makro Sonnar.  One look at the prints and you know you have a
> special lens.
>
> Simon
>
> Robert Browne wrote:
> >
> > There are times when the lens quality is so obvious that the viewer will
> notice a difference. The first time this happened to me is when I
> started to
> use the R system and I used a 100mm f4 macro and APX 25 to shoot black and
> white portraits for a client. When I picked up the finished prints from my
> printer his first comment to me was to ask what lens I was using. He said
> they were the sharpest prints he had ever seen from 35mm. In
> lenses the law
> of diminishing returns sets in pretty quickly, but sometimes the
> difference
> is worth it.
> >
>
>
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Replies: Reply from "Simon Lamb" <simon@sclamb.com> (Re: [Leica] the 90% rule-long, rambling BS from Walt)