Re: Exact fl of lenses... 220 VR

[Alan Zinn <azinn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:12 AM 6/14/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>All this work just to figure out how to use a camera
>that costs *that* much? Unbelievable. For that much
>money, I'd expect to set it up and use it, or at
>least, find complete instructions and charts included.
>IMMHO!
>
>
>>          So for me, its boiled down to an
>> estimate....  Sure wish this was
>> in the manual?  Bottom line, .05mm is a unrealistic
>> goal, and even .1mm will
>> only reproduce itself at the shutterspeed it was
>> tested at.
>> 
>>       Anyone have a different experience?
>> 


Guys,
Where do these fractional FL differences become a real-world problem?  Do
you need a magnifier to see them in side by side evaluations with a fine
optic on a stationary lens camera?  Or do they jump out at you like the
difference between 35mm and 6 x 6?

AZ



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