Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/08

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Subject: [Leica] BESSA R3A or M7
From: jefferys at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Sat Jan 8 09:03:41 2005
References: <BAY101-F424831A70521BEB00BBB1BAB950@phx.gbl> <BE05265A.1D695%telyt@earthlink.net> <76ba89b30501080759438c67da@mail.gmail.com> <0B304259-6196-11D9-9F58-000A95DD7D76@charter.net>

Also subjectively speaking, I have felt that my Zeiss lenses have
performed better with color film while Leica has performed better with
B&W. I know that sounds stupid, but the contrast seems better (richer)
in Zeiss photos, and definition (resolution) seems better in the Leica
photos. I don't always like sharper (and definitely dislike
sharpened!). To go out on a limb, CV lenses seem more Leica-like, and
Konica lenses seem more Zeiss-like. That's my perception, and I'm
sticking to it. ;-)

Jeffery


On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:55:04 -0800, Slobodan Dimitrov
<s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote:
> Subjectively speaking, I always felt that my Zeiss 120 lenses
> outperformed my leica lenses. But then I always placed that perception
> on the sheer film volume creating that effect.
> S. Dimitrov
> 
> 
> On Jan 8, 2005, at 7:59 AM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> 
> > Zeiss has taken the remarkable stand in stating (in Q&A fashion) that
> > it believes that the lenses will outperform those already on the
> > market (I assume that they were talking about Leica et al). That's a
> > pretty big statement to back up. I would imagine that it might take
> > more than a month of R&D to design and construct a bevy of those
> > lenses.
> >
> > Jeffery
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 05:55:38 -0800, Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
> > wrote:
> >> on 1/8/05 3:34 AM, Bill Marshall at billgem@hotmail.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> Zeiss did talk about focus shift in its lead up to Photokina & it
> >>> is again mentioned on it Zeiss Ikon website. Specifically, it says
> >>> that its
> >>> lenses are designed to "minimize focus shift."
> >>
> >> AFAIK, focus shift is caused by residual spherical aberation.
> >>
> >> Doug Herr
> >> Birdman of Sacramento
> >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> >>
> >>
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> Slobodan Dimitrov
> Photography
> 
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Replies: Reply from bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] BESSA R3A or M7)
In reply to: Message from billgem at hotmail.com (Bill Marshall) ([Leica] BESSA R3A or M7)
Message from telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] BESSA R3A or M7)
Message from jefferys at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] BESSA R3A or M7)
Message from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] BESSA R3A or M7)