A friend who grew up in Japan took a stab at translating the Tamron page. I guess that rice has something to do with vignetting.
----- Forwarded message from akibare - LJ Comment <[email protected]> ----- akibare (akibare) replied to your LiveJournal post (http://lrc.livejournal.com/1071123.html) in which you said: > http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.tamron.co. > jp/data/old-lens/cw28.htm > Gives the translation as: > In the light enough rice is almost complete correction of the image of > the periphery. F2.8??? Good sharp image sharpness, brightness and > satisfactory F2.8. Architectural and interior photography, perfect snap. > The original: > http://www.tamron.co.jp/data/old-lens/cw28.htm Their reply was: I don't know anything about cameras in English either but I'll take a stab at it: It has sufficient "light around the edge" (the light that comes in is brightest in the center of a lens and it decreases toward the edge, this lens has sufficient light even at the edges, is what it's saying, it's good) and correction of images around the edge is almost perfect. The F2.8 has clean sharp images, and satisfactory brightness. It's the perfect thing for taking pictures of architecture and photography done indoors. Specs: Model name: CW-28 Mount: Adaptall (adaputo-ru) Focal length: 28 mm Fully open F-stop value: 2.8 Lens composition: 7 groups 7 elements Minimum aperture: 16 Closest thing you can take pictures of: 0.25m away Filter diameter: 52mm Weight: 240 g Biggest diameter X full length: 65mm x 42mm Price: JPY 26,000 When it went on sale: 1976 When it was last made: 1979 (approximately) >From here, you can: - View all comments to this entry: http://lrc.livejournal.com/1071123.html ----- End forwarded message ----- -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
