At 09:44 AM 6/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Zuiks
>
>Who else has seen the latest PopPhoto?
>
The shot sucks, IMHO. Even if it may have been
>taken by one of the San Jose Sharks hockey players.
They all suck, except Greg's. I suspect they're trying to develop an 'edge' or
some such foolishness, for the MTV crowd...Yeah, Greg is guilty as charged.
It's simply a 'pretty picture'. It's not cutting edge, leading edge, or edgy,
merely beautiful.
>OK, here's the meat.
>
snip
>And, to get a feel for
>how great it really is, one can turn back 2 pages to where similar lens
>resolution charts are presented for 4 lenses for the Rollei 8008, made
>by Zeiss, Scneider and Rollei. What you'll see is the best of these
>lenses achieved only 69 lines per millimeter!!! And this lens carried a
>street price of $3200! And it was a Schneider 90/4 **macro**. And the
>word 'outstanding' is nowhere to be found on any of the 4 lens tests,
>with 'acceptable' and 'below average' making appearances instead.
Here you're a bit off... it is a well-known fact that medium format lenses do
not have the resolution of 35mm lenses, overall. Still, compare a 30x40 from
aforementioned Schneider against a shot even with the 90 macro and the MF will
win every time. There's no substitute for square inches...
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Denton Taylor
Photogallery at www.dentontaylor.com.
Panoramas and Immersive Imaging at
www.threehundredsixty.com
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