Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/04

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Subject: [Leica] Lillie.jpeg
From: "Jay Coleman" <jaycoleman@nyc.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 13:18:59 -0800

Simon:

That's a beaufiful shot.  It shows the quality of the lens well but also
shows the quality of the photographer -- you could have made that shot with
any lens (well, not _any_).

Best.

Jay Coleman

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Simon Lamb
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 11:23 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] the 90% rule-long, rambling BS from Walt


Gerd

I agree that labs do sometimes sharpen wihtout being asked.  Here is a
picture I scanned fro the neg:

http://www.sclamb.com/contaxn1/MakroSonnar/lillie.jpg

Here is the eye details:

Unsharpened:
http://www.sclamb.com/contaxn1/MakroSonnar/Unsharpened%20Eye.jpg

Sharpened a little:
http://www.sclamb.com/contaxn1/MakroSonnar/Sharpened%20Eye.jpg

As someone said, one look at an image and you know you have a good lens.
Not exactly on topic for Leica, but I am sure the 100mm Leica macro is
excellent and that it's excellence is immediately obvious.

Simon

Gerd Heuser wrote:

> Nowadays it is sometimes a little bit confusing. Since modern minilabs
like
> the Fuji Frontier use digital techniques and sharpen the images before
> printing the differences disappear to a certain extent. It happens quite
> often now that an owner of a cheap compact camera says: "Why use a Leica
> when the results are comparable?" And the Fuji prints up to 8 x 11.5 (as
to
> my knowledge)
>
> Gerd
>
> >
> >
> > I just discovered the same thing this week with the new Zeiss 100mm
f/2.8
> > Makro Sonnar.  One look at the prints and you know you have a
> > special lens.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > Robert Browne wrote:
> > >
> > > There are times when the lens quality is so obvious that the viewer
will
> > notice a difference. The first time this happened to me is when I
> > started to
> > use the R system and I used a 100mm f4 macro and APX 25 to shoot black
and
> > white portraits for a client. When I picked up the finished prints from
my
> > printer his first comment to me was to ask what lens I was using. He
said
> > they were the sharpest prints he had ever seen from 35mm. In
> > lenses the law
> > of diminishing returns sets in pretty quickly, but sometimes the
> > difference
> > is worth it.
> > >
> >
> >
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