Originally Posted by
Bob Salomon
Why?
Will you be using your lenses to shoot newspapers plastered flat on a wall or will you shoot people, places and things?
Will you use your lenses at near distances or far?
Will you do your tests all at the same time, with the same lighting, at the same exposures, on the same emulsion, developed all at the same time in chemistry that is equally fresh, will you use the same loupe to test under the same lighting when looking at the results, with your eyes equally fresh?
If not you are simply wasting time, film and chemistry.
Lenses should be tested under the conditions that you will use them for and on the types of subjects that you will be shooting.
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