Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 21mm Super AngulonR
From: "Patrick G. Sobalvarro" <pgs@sobalvarro.org>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 21:10:40 -0700

Bill Larsen wrote:
> I have been using this the 21/4 -R for about three months now|.  I had intended to sell it, but find I like it too much.  There is very little light fall-off at the corners.  It has proven to be great at parades and street fairs.
> 
> I have not been disappointed by lack of sharpness at f/4.

I didn't mean to indicate that I don't like the Super-Angulon-R.  I do
like it, and I use it a lot, because I like the perspective when
photographing big machines and industrial plants.  But if I compare it
to, say, the 28/2.8 Elmarit-R, the latter is just sharper at f/4. 
(Although the Elmarit-R also does weird things with the out-of-focus
parts of the picture, where the Super-Angulon-R doesn't.)

- -Patrick