Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This lens is (in)famous for its curved field. Try stopping down a bit. John Collier On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 05:43 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > Doug, > > I've recently used my 400 telyt 6.8 in a situation which brought up > some very strange background > rendering. Photographing water skiers, wide open, at varying distances > from 30yds - 100yds, the > far side of the lake comes up with a different degree of out-of-focus > rendering at the outside of > the frame than the center - very unpleasant effect. It also appears > that the skiers at the outside > of the frame are not as sharp as those near the center - even though > they seem to be parallel to > the film plane. I've never noticed this effect in other subjects that > I've photographed with this > lens (usually centered subjects and much closer). Is this normal for > this lens wide open at longer > focusing distances? > > George > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html