Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/19

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT MF RF
From: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:41:56 -0500

> In the end, the marginal
> difference in lens character is nothing compared to the effects of light
> control, camera handling, film and processing, etc., etc.  You can get
> great, great, sharp images with any of this stuff -- so much so that a
> negligible increase in sharpness from one lens to another is rather
> insignificant.

Sharpness is not the only factor, and beyond a certain point it is, as you
even said, a negligible factor.  Some lenses are quite sharp in the center,
and then fall off quite dramatically...

Cripes, this is a Leica list, and half the list picks lenses by bokeh,
rather than 'ultimate' sharpness.