Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/02

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Subject: [Leica] LHSA article (i.e., G1 with Leica Lenses)
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:24:19 -0400
References: <C671CA71.50AA9%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark - Chuckle.

Sometimes I yearn for the good old days of sensor material that would  
work properly with any lens.  :-)


Regards,

Dick



On Jul 02, 2009, at 2:22 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> Its just really bad PR to have bad corners on an image circle which  
> is 2x
> less what the lens was designed to provide.
> We should be working with the sweat spot here.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>> From: Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at comcast.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:40:37 -0400
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] LHSA article (i.e., G1 with Leica Lenses)
>>
>> Scott - Roger Rubin and I are both using G1's with Leica lenses and
>> are really happy with the results.  You can find some of my recent
>> images with the camera here:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/NYLUG+2009/
>>
>> and here:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/panasonic+G1/
>>
>>
>> OTH, everything isn't rosy.  Corner performance with the shorter
>> lenses is pretty poor.  My test results are here:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/G1_M_LENSES/
>>
>>
>> I actual use, though, I rarely see the corner problem since subjects
>> are generally much further from the camera than in the tests and the
>> fuzziness tends to be hidden in the image.  It's a great combination.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
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