Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have 3 native tongues, of which English is one, so any confusion is probably due to my generous consumption of single malt celebrating Barcelona's trashing of Real Madrid tonight. In any event, what I meant was that books filled with photographs of lenses are much less interesting than books filled with photographs made with those lenses. Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Apr 27, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I guess you're saying "pictures" are not photographs. That's proably the > case in whatever your first language is. > In American English which I regret is my only and first language which > I've > been speaking and writing for most of sixty years it means "illustration". > It' s as vague as you can get. As in not words but a graphic. A plate. > Pie > chart. Line drawing. Ikon. Clip art. Electron microscope scan. > Daguerreotype halftone. > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > > > > >> From: Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:45:28 +0200 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Shipping info on Leica Compendium >> >> As much as I like Erwin, I prefer books with photographs rather than books >> with pictures of equipment. >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog >> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Apr 27, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> Started shipping April 26. Erwin's update on real paper of his Leica lens >>> compendium! >>> http://www.imx.nl/photo/page152/page152.html >>> >>> " 604 pages (!!) with 1000+ illustrations." >>> " Every lens entry has at least four images (the picture of the lens, the >>> lens diagram and the MTF graphs)." >>> >>> I'm not seeing where It says what it costs. >>> >>> The existing book by Erwin is the key book on my photography book shelf. >>> And >>> has been for 3 or 4 years. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------- >>> Mark William Rabiner >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >