What will be the next lens to get APO?

[pico]

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Yes, and there is the phenomena disclosed regarding 'taste tests' in which members of the public are asked to sip a sample of Pepsi and Coke (or Guinness and Coors) then report which tastes better. The flaw is that a taste is not a full glass and after the favored beverage is consumed, the client does not want another, but will go for another of the non-preferred drink.

 

Sharpness is way over-rated, and boring as hell, a 'clinical' experience - cool once, but not often thereafter except to talk about, as you wrote, Shibboleth.

[IkarusJohn]

Yes, and there is the phenomena disclosed regarding 'taste tests' in which members of the public are asked to sip a sample of Pepsi and Coke (or Guinness and Coors) then report which tastes better.

 

Coors? What's that then? I hope you're not talking beer?

[sebastel]

>> What will be the next lens to get APO?

 

the question sounds like APO is a contagious disease.

[Double Negative]

I'm just wondering how much longer Leica lens names can get...

 

"APO-Summicron-M 50mm f/2 ASPH" is quite a mouthful already!

[algrove]

If the image is of such high stakes, then use something larger than 35mm format. Or not, and spend an inordinate amount of money, more money than you would for medium-format and still not do as well.

 

How true.

 

With the used prices for Hassleblad's old V system at interesting levels one can get a 503CW body ($3-4k) and a few good Zeiss lenses (100mm $1k, 250mm $0.7k; 60mm $0.8k) for about the price of a digital M body alone. Then, if you take the cost of a Noctilux (or 2 to 3 M lenses) and instead buy a Phase One V Mount P45+ digital back, you have a system that produces sharp images that are inherently larger than 35mm and you can blow them up way larger than with an M9 or downsize them to print out A3+ prints. The PS images are routinely between 1 to 2 GB (or more with many, many layers or with stitching) before flattening. Many pros who used the 100mm lens used to complain that it was too sharp and they had to reverse sharpen images taken with this lens. Just get the T* lenses with Zeiss coating.

 

Of course you are giving up mobility with the Hassy, even if you get an old SWC model with its fixed 38mm (around 24mm equivalent), which some use to do candid/street work or nice landscapes with this lens.

[lars_bergquist]

I know of, and have met, one photographer who used to hike and camp out for weeks in roadless wildernesses in Lapland and elsewhere around the globe with a Hasselblad V for company. His name is Claes Grundsten. He took some stunning pictures.

 

A Hassy V and a Hassy H are of course two entirely different beasts: One wild, the other very domestic.

 

The old man from the Kodachrome Age