On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:03:58PM +0800, C.H.Ling wrote:
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> From: frieder.faig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> >On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:08:19AM +0800, C.H.Ling wrote:
> >> We did a side to side comparison between Zuiko 18 and Tamron SP17 two
> >> months ago, Tamron won the light fall off and Zuiko clearly won the
> >> edge resolution. At the same time we also did some side to side
> >> comparison between Zuiko and Minolta on 35/1.8 (35/2), 50/1.4 and
> >> 50/3.5 shooting at a sunny day with same objects, the result was
> >> un-expected, it was hard to tell the different between the two in
> >> terms of color and resolution.
> >>
> >What result was expected ? Which appertures were used( sunny day) ?
> >When stopped down, it is hard to find differences between lenses.
> >
> >Frieder Faig
> >
>
> Due to the low shutter speed of both Minolta XD and the OM4 we can only use
> F4 as the widest aperture. I know when lens stop down it is not easy to find
> the different in resolution. I expected there will be some different found
> in color balance, this easily happen in many third party lenses. (of course
> we shot the same batch of slide and process at the same lab.)
O.K. the color balance may be different. But Minolta isn`t a thirt
party-manufacturer
so I won`t expect much significant differences to Olympus.
(Exeptions evaluate the rule).
>
> On the other hand it is easy to distinguish the Tamron 17 and Zuiko 18,
> Zuiko clearly won the edge resolution.
Yeah, but the Zuiko 3.5/18 is one of the real jewels in the OM lens line.
- too sad, it`s too expensive for me.
>
Frieder Faig
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