Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica R vs. Contax SLR lenses
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 11:42:14 -0500

At 01:14 PM 9/1/99 +0200, you wrote:
>I
>shoot exclusively B&W and assume that B&W is a better platform to see the
>differences on.

Not if one shoots color, which is a big part of a lens's correction. 
Sharpness can be judged very well with b&w, though it has no superiority 
for that matter over color, but color is important for those of us who 
shoot it.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

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