Ridax wrote: "Also, the quality control is almost never a problem with Russian optics."
Interesting, if true. Here are two observations that disagree with you: First, some years ago a number of 200/6.3 Orions (Ia, I think, could be mistaken) came to market. Buyers complained loudly about defective front elements. Second, this
http://web2.ges.gla.ac.uk/~gpetrie/P...y_fulltext.pdf reports severe centering problems with Russar mapping lenses.
About the value of resolution tests taken wide open, well, in general the lens will never do worse than that. <...> my Uran-27 is ok but no better at the apertures I normally use than a much lighter lens of the same focal length, tessar or plasmat, in shutter. So the Uran-27 almost always stays home, as does my 4"/2.0 TTH. The GOI catalog reports the Uran-27's resolution (center/corner) wide open as ~ 48/~8 lp/mm wide open.
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