Today I wanted to make a picture of a subject at about ten feet from the camera sharply in focus against an out of focus distant background. So I shot it at f8 with my 150mm APO Symmar and a good bit of rise, about all the lens covers but no fall off showed on film. Two negatives, both equally crappy. The subject sharpness was not impressive at all. I've done this kind of shot before with a 135 Xenar on my Crown Graphic using the rangefinder handheld and got a better negative. Crispy sharp subject and nice mushy background. This 150mm is razor sharp when stopped down and I guess I expected it to retain some of that at f8 but I was wrong. Can anyone enlighten me on this?
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