Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/13

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Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC--Englarging lens questions
From: Alan Bearden <healey@garnet.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:08:23 -0800

At 06:55 AM 3/13/97 -0400, you wrote:
>What, if any, practical effect does the aperture setting of a enlarging 
>lens have? If you print a negative at f/16, will you have a greater 
>"depth of field" in the sense that if the negative is not perfectly flat 
>in the carrier, that area of the negative will print sharper than if you 
>printed the same, not-perfectly-flat negative at f/2.8?
>
>Thanks for your thoughts.
>
>-----Yes!