Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This morning I went out and photographed people at bus-stops using the Vario-Elmar (35-70, f/3.5,German), mostly set at 70mm. Then later in the day I photographed some street scenes using the 19mmElmarit-R, current, f/2.8. Looking at my transparencies, I find that the quality of the faces (all quite small, due to distance) is much better in the Elmarit images than in the Vario-Elmar's. Maybe I did not focus well in the latter case, or perhaps the f stop was a bit wider (less light in morning). But the difference is noticeable. I realize this is not at all scientific or objective, but have people similar experiences, or is this just too messy a comparison to learn anything from it? Martin krieger@usc.edu