Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan Honemann jotted down the following: > For those like me who will never own more than one sample of any lens, it's > an unsettling thought to consider that you may have one of the sub-par > variations. On the one hand, if you don't notice it, who cares; on the > other, why pay all this money for the very best optics if you end up > receiving the equivalent of a much lower priced lens? It's called Life. Shit happens. Sometimes you win, sometimes you loose. You're playing on the bleeding edge with Leica optics in any case. Sub-par to what? The absolute theoretical best a lens can be? All lenses are that. Sub-par to a 1937 uncoated triplet? Sub-par to a $200 consumer Canon AF zoom? I think not. Sub-par to manufacturing standards? Unlikely. Sub-par to the average of all manufactured lenses of that type? Inescapable fact of life, as long as you are manufacturing to meet or beat a specification, rather than just manufacturing to absolutely meet a specification. If you're actually spending time worrying/thinking about this stuff, there is something wrong, and it isn't with your lenses. M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | Science: To question reality. email: howard.390@osu.edu | www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------