Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:38 AM 6/1/96 -0700, you wrote: >At 12:03 PM 6/1/96 -0500, you wrote: > >>I bought a 35mm /f1.4 ASPH and liked it very much until I took some pictures >>in the mall of a shop that had small christmas lights hung all over it. I >>was shocked to notice triangular flare on the lights near the edges and >>corners!! I shot it again and same result. Bought the lens new with > >That's coma, and is a common situation with most, if not all, high speed >wide-angle lenses. Stop down a bit and it goes away. Only bright lights at >the corner that are so small see to cause this problem with every wide angle >lens I've ever owned. Just noticed it with my EOS 24mm lens the other day. >It also happened, to a lesser extent, to my 35 Summilux R. > Hi Eric, Yes you are correct about the comma, but Lieca made a big point of stating that the lens didn't have comma, or it was exceedingly small. They published some pictures taken in Los Vegas with a lot of lights all over, edges, corners, etc. as pin points. My ASPH showed distinct comma, darn near as much as my f/2.0, which isn't very much, but not touted like the ASPH. Dick