Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/24

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Subject: [Leica] Technical detail--why?
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:43:20 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Tina Manley wrote:

>I do like to find out which lens was used on a photo that I either like or
>dislike.  Usually it's lenses at the extreme wide or telephoto or extremely
>fast that I'm wondering about.  The out-of-focus areas of the photo can
>make or break the photo for me and I'd like to know the terrible ones to
>avoid.  That's all.

Same for me.  A few of my lenses can show distracting artifacts in the 
non-focussed areas (notice how I avoided the b-word?) in some circumstances. 
 Knowing which lens I used for photos where these artifacts appear will 
allow me to choose another lens in similar conditions.

Most of the the choice is easy: 280mm f/4 APO-Telyt-R, but sometimes the 
quick handling of the Novoflex-mount lenses trumps the APO-Telyt's imaging 
qualities.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com