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- From: Rev Dr Phil Herring <phil_herring@info-gw.uow.edu.au>
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Schneider G Claron for Landscapes?
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 23:52:29 GMT
- Organization: The University of Wollongong
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- In article <1992Nov12.235200.806@mercury.cair.du.edu> Thorn Roby,
- troby@diana.cair.du.edu writes:
- >After seeing a recommendation for this lens in the Zone VI catalog
- >as a good general purpose lens (despite the fact that it's optimized
- >for closeups) I decided to give it a try. My initial tests of the
- >150 (at 25 feet) are not too impressive - about 35 lp/mm. I'll be
- >repeating the tests, but I thought I'd check to see whether anyone
- >has used it for this purpose. By comparison, I shot the same test
- >charts (at 12 feet) with my EL-Nikkor 80/5.6 (also a six element
- >design optimized for closeups) and got about 50 lp/mm.
-
- The G-Claron should be diffraction-limited at f/22 and under. It
- should cover 6 by 9 with ease and be sharp all the way to the corners
- (they have an image circle of eighty degrees at f/22). They really
- aren't designed to be used at their maximum aperture of f/9 or so;
- use f/16 at least.
-
- Assuming that you *were* using the lens at f/22 or better, you might
- check that the lens is set up correctly. The aperture diaphragm should
- be in the exact optical centre of the lens; if it isn't, it will have
- to be seen to, otherwise you'll get aberrations (and probably focus
- shift, too).
-
-
-
- -- Phil.
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- Rev Dr Phil Herring, University of Wollongong, Australia
- Copyright (c) 1992 Phil Herring phil_herring@info-gw.uow.edu.au
- "My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose
- I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for
- others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered
- reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is
- not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so."
- Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
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