[Leica] Nikon forum advice (OT!)

[john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)]

Ah, I was talking Leica asph ;-)

john
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The Voigtlander 50/1.5 Nokton was perhaps the first really sharp, afforable, 
asph lens that people hated for its bokeh. The trend in thinking seemed to 
be that reducing aberrations with asph elements benefitted everything except 
bokeh.

I think every lens needs to be assessed on its own merit. I don't have any 
bad Leica lenses, though the old 50/3.5 Elmar performs like a Russian copy. 
Wait, maybe it is....

The 50/2.5 Hexanon is better.

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Jeffery L. Smith
New Orleans, Louisiana
USA

On Jul 9, 2012, at 20:56, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:

> I think that is a widely held misconception....
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> john
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> By the way, George, you had some incredibly creamy-bokeh shots posted the 
> other day, and one of them was with an aspherical Leica lens(!). It blew 
> away my bias that aspherical = bad bokeh.
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