Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How about color differences? Do you notice any? In my experience with many AI-S lenses, the differences in color transmission with Kodachrome was quite obvious. Bud Alexey Merz wrote: > [Snip] > > The *first* thing that this Pentax/Nkion photographer of over 15 years > did upon aquisition of his M6, 35/1.4 ASPH, and 50/2 was to perform > blind A-B comparisons of these lenses with the AIS equivalents. > > At the widest apertures the Leica stuff won for resolution, contrast, > and flare supression. The 35 Leica was better at 1.4 than the Nikon > was at 2.8. In the field (now, based on ~50 rolls of film) I get maybe > twice the number of sharp exposures at 1/15 and 1/8 as I do with my > Nikons. At some point perhaps I'll post some 60x enlargements of > regions of the slides, set up so that the viewer can do his/her own > A/B tests. Of course, at 5.6 and smaller, there was not much difference > between the lenses; but I think we all know that already. > > -Alexey >