Amateur Photographer Magazine

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The first folding camera that really impressed me was the Voigtlander Perkeo II. The Color-Skopar lens is wonderful; it seems to render images with a little more 3-dimensionality than other Tessar-type lenses I've used.

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I'm puzzled as to what the writer is getting at. I haven't done any formal tests of MF camera lenses, but are his comments alluding to the artistic effects of well corrected astigmatism and/or spherical aberration? Is it another word for "bokeh"? Would the effects show when viewing an inkjet print?

Very many years ago I carried out detailed lens tests on my Contaflex 1 45mm f2.8 Tessar and my Vito II 50mm f3.5 Color Skopar. I was surprised at the large differences I found, but have no idea whether the same design philosophy carried over to MF lenses. The Tessar was very sharp in the centre even at f2.8 but had distinct curvature of field, whilst the Color-Skopar had a flat field and never reached the very high resolution heights that my Tessar managed.

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Malcolm Stewart

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