Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>>>>>>>>> It has been repeated so often, that at 5.6 all current and well corrected lenses perform very well and whatever differences in fine detail rendition and micro contrast are available, the handheld shooting, by vibration and focusing inaccuracy will degrade these differences. <<<<<<<<<< So if I shoot most often around f/5.6 or so, and I shoot probably 90% of the time handheld -- and this is how I shoot, by the way -- there is little to no meaningful optical advantage to my using Leica lenses over other top brands. At least that's how I'm interpreting the above. Am I interpreting correctly? Larry