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Re: [OM] lens and film contrast

Subject: Re: [OM] lens and film contrast
From: Roger Wesson <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 10:55:03 +0100
I disagree!  If photography is an art and not a science, then the only
criterion for deciding what is a good lens and what isn't is whether you
like the results it gives you.

Roger

> Lens contrast is an altogether different matter. A lens can only degrade
> image contrast, either by having a poor MTF at low spatial frequencies, or
> by scattering highlight light into the shadow areas. A lens that does either
> of these things is _not_ a good lens, even if it provides the kind of images
> we prefer.
>

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