Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think by the mid 70's the nikon glass would have matched up pretty well. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: "Robert D. Baron" <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:47:18 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: large format lens vs. medium format lens > > ==On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:06 AM, FRANK DERNIE < > frank.dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > >> That is certainly not the case for everybody. A friend of mine who was, >> IMHO, one of the best motor sports photographers of the 70s and 80s, now >> retired, always selected any new lens he bought from Nikon personally. He >> shot a couple of films and recorded the serial numbers of the lenses he >> used. He selected the best lens after examining the negatives. All the >> lenses had passed final inspection and were in spec but the best was >> noticeably better than the average. >> Since he was almost always using lenses wide open it was an important >> difference. >> Frank D >> >> > In or around 1960 I worked part time in a camera store in Rock Island, > Illinois, while in high school. The store - long since gone - was a full > line Nikon and Leica dealer. One day the manager and I took a roll of 36 > exposure Kodachrome and put it in a Nikon body, making exposures with each > focal length lens, wide open and then closed down. We rewound the roll and > put it in a Leica body. wound it forward and repeated the test with Leica > lenses. > > When the film was developed we projected the slides and saw clear > variations in color rendition between the various Nikon lenses but not so > with the Leica lenses. I wonder what would happen if the same test was > performed today. > > No, wait, you couldn't. Kodachrome is gone. > > --Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information