>> I have a Yashica T4, and the Zeiss Tessar lens is extremely sharp and has excellent contrast. But it has a severe light falloff problem (which means that the image is not evenly illuminated, but rather is brighter in the center than in the corners). This is a very common problem with point-and-shoot cameras. >> I once had an Olympus XA that had the same problem. In the Boundary Waters, I shot the same scene with both the XA and my Nikonos. The light falloff was very noticeable in the slides from from the XA, especially in the sky area of the slides. The Light falloff (and there is some with every lens) was not at all noticeable in the Nikonos slides. After seeing the results, I returned the XA to the dealer. I think the reason this is a problem with point-and-shoots is the short distance between the lens and the film; a P&S camera with a retracting lens might not suffer the problem to the same degree. Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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