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

