On 4/28/05 2:30 PM, "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> Plasticity: A subtle quality of roundness, depth, and smoothness of a
>> photographic image highly prised by artistic photographers. It is
>> produced by subtle choice of uncorrected aberations by the lens
>> designer. Pentax traditionally disigns lenses with this quality. The
>> Limited lenses display this charactoristic particularly well.
> 
> Very well. So I used to right term after all, didn't I? :)

Now I learned something.  The word plasticity to me was always in an
engineering term (like in metal bending etc), but never knew this meaning.
I can now see that it is a derivative from the meaning of "flexibility" of
sorts).
I always learn something new in this list, more than anything about Pentax
:-).

Cheers,

Ken

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