Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Doughnuts vs Circles
From: "James Mason, Arctic Sounder" <sounder@otz.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 19:28:36 -0900
References: <NABBLIJOIFAICKBIEPJJAEHINFAA.darkroom@ix.netcom.com> <3C06AE0D.6030902@earthlink.net> <20011129181746.U6978@oven.com> <3C070270.ECFA1C44@d2.com>

It means you are hungry for donuts.



>Just got some slides back from a test I shot with a Jupiter-3
>(50mm/1.5).
>To my surprise I noticed that when wide open, the out of focus
>highlights
>turned into rings or doughnuts as opposed to the circles I've seen with
>a
>Noctilux or Summilux. It actualy looks very pretty, but I had always
>been
>under the impression that these kinds of artifacts were only seen in the
>domain
>of reflector type lenses (is that the correct term?). The other and
>rather
>shocking thing I noticed was how darn sharp this $50 dollar lens
>was...but
>then again it is a Zeiss at heart.
>
>Anyone?
>
>cheers,
>
>feli
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