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Karbe and Leica (and Zeiss and Canon and...) are just following fashion trends.

They (we) need sharpness as if photography and reprography were the same thing.

« I am always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe l'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects. »

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Other times, other customs...

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Karbe and Leica (and Zeiss and Canon and...) are just following fashion trends.

 

We've had 'good enough' lenses for a long time. Recent advances have produced extraordinary ultra-wide zooms, faster zooms, and with electronics added in a variety of built in lens stabilisation devices. Which leaves manufacturers with the problem of how to market similar specification lenses to their potential customers. The M fit lenses with their relatively unique characteristics are for a niche market but have to be seen as being at least as good as if not better than their 'competitors's' offerings but in a 'classic' form so cannot utilise many of the advances that other camera systems can. So they follow the trend of ever 'better' in terms of resolution because its a complex and difficult to understand technical concept which can have both a mystique and a simple set of figures ascribed to it. Depending on subject matter I print images from 50+ year old lenses and current ones - I have no technical quibbles with any provided I made the right lens choice for the subject matter.