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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jwillson" data-source="post: 3498956" data-attributes="member: 27449">It's a very nice image, but I'm not sure what the Leica 3D and plasticity is from this image.  Obviously, the contrast is very good.  It's hard to tell anything about microcontrast and resolution when you are looking at a web image, but I have owned that lens in the past and I know what it's capable of so I'm comfortable supposing the resolution is good, at least within the limitations of the rangefinder focus.  Subject isolation is good since you shot this at, I assume, f/2 and it's a moderate telephoto.Tell me what you think we should be seeing in this image.  Are you describing depth?  There isn't much.  That's a good thing--narrow depth of field is how you isolate the subject.  The lapels are in focus, but the left sleeve is outside the depth of field.  Ears appear to be as well.  All that is exactly how I would hope.There is lots of contrast in the image with very clearly defined edges.  Generally this adds "pop" to the image, and your picture certainly has that.  Is that what you are referring to with "3D" and "Plasticity"?  Perhaps if you showed us a second image that DIDN'T have the "3D" look you are describing we could understand better.  Frankly, I suspect that what Leica and some others are referring to when the describe the tremendous plasticity of the images is really contrast.  The Noctivids certainly have lots of contrast--just like your photograph.  They do a very good job of stray light suppression, and as a result contrast is significantly higher than in any other binoculars I have used.- Jared</blockquote>

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