Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/05/02

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Subject: [Leica] Leica T lens not optically perfect?
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 05:05:53 +0000
References: <80F9701439F20347874CE5E4E03C22E9E6B4D952@WhizzMAIL01.whizz.org> <CAF8hL-GqnwBkNUmw78RFn9wN==-4+taz5tD0gfF+wCf7F0Kmmw@mail.gmail.com>

Indeed, as Erwin Puts says on 
http://www.imx.nl/photo/blog-2/update-leica-practicum-ii.html

" One of the intriguing questions is the upcoming challenge by Zeiss and 
Sigma for the high end market of optical designs of superior specifications 
and performance. Lens design is  still an art and for a long time Leica had  
no competitors. I know that this statement will draw commnets by the users 
of Pentax, Olympus, Canon, Nikon and Fuji cameras that this statement is far 
off the actual state of affairs.In some respects it is! But the truth is 
that the post-processing software, the digital signal processing, is now the 
main factor that determines the quality of the image. It is no longer the 
lens itself."

john 

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Richard Man

That's pretty severe, but understandably this is the way how things going to 
work, moving forward. Why make a lens 30% larger and heavier when the 
software can get 99% there?

Didn't a lugger bash other camera/lens because they do the same?
Regardless, technology moves on. Even my 4x5 has some minor enhancements 
over the ones made in the 1900s. :-)


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 9:27 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:

>
> http://www.dpreview.com/previews/leica-t-typ701/6?utm_campaign=interna
> l-link&utm_source=features&utm_medium=homepage-block&ref=features
>
> john
>



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