[pure-silver] Re: "Leica Photography" Is Dead. Leica Killed It.
- From: "bobkiss @caribsurf.com" <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:12:08 -0400
Well I, for one have used Nikkor lenses and Leitz lenses side by side
for decades and found that the Leica Sumicron 50 mm lens is amazingly sharp
but it is more than that. Most people forget about low frequency MTF (or
OTF if speaking only of the lens) which we mere mortals refer to as
"contrast" of a lens. I shot the same film (first Tri-x then T-max 400)
and developed the film from both cameras in the same developing line, often
side by side in a basket. The tonal gradation from that Sumicron had
subtlety and separation I have NEVER seen with any of the 8 Nikkors I own.
I realize that the point of that blog was about things other than the
quality of the lenses but the Sumicron IS
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Bill <billtech@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Except that the Daguerreotypes will still be visible...
>
> -Bill
>
> On Mar 11, 2014, at 1:29 PM, Dana Myers <dana.myers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> our 1970s Kodacolor prints will be regarded like
> 1850s Daguerreotypes :-)
>
>
>
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