Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The only fly in your ointment is that Ted does use slide film too... John Collier On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 04:54 PM, Thomas Schofield wrote: > OK, I am definitely an Erwin fan, but I think you are > being too hard on Erwin here. His practical use > observations are, IMHO, consistent with Ted and Tom A. > I may get yelled at for copying an excerpt from his > article, but here is where he describes Ted's > observations to a Tee: > > "From the standpoint of a practical photographer, > working in the situation described above[low light, > handheld, slow shutter speeds, high speed film], the > performance at the wider apertures is quite acceptable > and quite uniform over most of the image area. When > using films like Tri-X, its high acutance and good > edge sharpness can compensate the softness of the > Nokton edge detail. With slide film and slower speed > bw-film however, the definition of the Nokton is not > up to the current state of the art." - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html