Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/13

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Subject: [Leica] Leica M Monochrom
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:27:55 +0200
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Le 13 juin 12 ? 23:22, Steve Barbour a ?crit :

>
> On Jun 13, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
>
>> Once I had just been delivered a new 9.5-57 Angenieux zoom lens for  
>> our
>> production camera, and a client hands me a pair of pantie hose.  He  
>> wants
>> me to put the over the lens to add a "dreamy quality" to the image.
>>
>> I explained that once the dream is there, it can't be undreamed.
>
>
>
> mathematically,  that is called a dream squared,
>
>
> Steve
>
>


plus a photog scared


ph





>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:01 PM, B. D. Colen <bd at bdcolenphoto.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> Thinking about the MM, I find myself wondering why one would pay  
>>>> a $1000
>>>> premium for an already extremely expensive digital camera  
>>>> stripped of
>>>> what, for me, is one of the greatest attractions of digital - the  
>>>> ability
>>>> to think black and white, produce wonderful black and white  
>>>> images, but
>>>> always have a color "negative." Shooting with a color sensor  
>>>> allows me to
>>>> go back to my images years later and discover something that I  
>>>> thought
>>>> should be a black and white image is, in fact, extraordinary in  
>>>> color.
>>>> Yes, taking off the bayer filter allows for an otherworldly level  
>>>> of
>>>> sharpness. But photography, for me at least, is not about etching  
>>>> with a
>>>> razor blade, it's about catching moments that show us things  
>>>> about the
>>>> human condition we see every day yet fail to see because they are  
>>>> so much
>>>> a part of our lives. I don't care about being able to count the  
>>>> number of
>>>> fibers in the thread holding a button onto someone's collar, I  
>>>> instead to
>>>> see the joy, or pain, in their eyes.
>>>
>>> End of quite rant.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sonny
>> http://sonc.com/look/
>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>>
>> USA
>> NO ARCHIVE



In reply to: Message from richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Leica M Monochrom)
Message from bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Leica M Monochrom)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] Leica M Monochrom)
Message from steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] Leica M Monochrom)