Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A great, great lens, Slobodan. Geoffrey Crawley, Editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Photography in the 1960's and 70's, called it the connoisseur's lens. At the time he wrote that it is the best possible balance of contrast and resolution. The successor lens tipped the balance in favor of high contrast, especially at full aperture. Seth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 9:06 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Early 35 'cron > Speaking of 'crons. I still kick myself for getting rid of my first > generation 3 cam 50mm 'cron-R. I still have the elpros for it. As I'm a > Rolleinar user, I don't find the elpros inconveinent. > S. Dimitrov > > > > On Mar 9, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Bob Palmieri wrote: > >> Folks - >> >> When I was up in Rochester in the 70's I studied "Modern Camera Design" >> (as they called the course) with a heavy guy from Kodak named Rudolph >> Kingslake. I recall that he was quite enamored of that 8 element 35 >> 'cron. In fact, he wrote the chapter on lenses in the Encyclopedia of >> Photography, and I believe he used more photographic examples from that >> particular lens than any other. >> >> I also recall that the MTF charts seem to indicate that it outperforms >> the 4th gen stopped down, but is considerably worse wide open. >> >> Bob Palmieri >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > Slobodan Dimitrov > http://sdimitrovphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >