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Secondary Longitudinal Chromatic Aberration (M240)
Secondary longitudinal chromatic aberration (SLOCA) can be a distracting factor with any lens, generating background blurs with a magenta core and green surround. These color blurs pollute the real color, introducing colors that do not exist in the scene. SLOCA always improves with stopping down for depth of field, because the color blurs are in essence differential defocus by color.
When choosing a lens, a highly corrected lens like the Leica 28mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH can excel in many areas, but a high level of correction can reveal inadequate correction for secondary color by removing diluting aberrations which would otherwise dilute the color (desaturate it). The only fast lenses on the market as of late 2015 that really control SLOCA well are the Zeiss Otus designs.
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LEICA M (Typ 240) + Summilux-M 1:1.4/28 ASPH @ 28mm
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