Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I was in college, my photography professor always told us, tongue in cheek, ?If you can?t make it good, make it big!? -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 12/9/14, 12:06 AM, "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: >And the resulting garbage is printed HUGE and hung in art galleries. > >On 9 Dec 2014, at 04:09, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > >> A commentary on our obsession with FLE ASPH ED OIS lens? >> >> *********** >> I certainly could go out and buy a good, tack-sharp lens that would take >> the perfect picture, that's in focus from end to end. But instead, I >>spend >> an awful lot of time at that antique mall, looking around for these >>lenses >> with just the right amount of decrepitude. The glue has to be peeling >>off >> of the lens elements; it's great if it's mildewed and out of whack. A >>lens >> is made up of several different pieces of glass, which are supposed to >>stay >> glued in the right relationship with each other. But my most prized lens >> has one of the pieces of glass askew, so when the light comes in it, >>it's >> refulgent. It just bounces all around and does this great sort of >> luminescent thing on the glass. You can tell a good ruined lens, right >>from >> the get-go: they are the ones you find in the trash cans of old photo >> studios, in some ghost town in Iowa. I mean, that's the kind of lens I'm >> looking for. >> >> >> -- >> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto >> // https://www.facebook.com/Transformations.CosplayPortraits >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >Nathan Wajsman >Alicante, Spain >http://www.frozenlight.eu >http://www.greatpix.eu > >Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 >PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman >Blog: http://www.nathansmusings.eu/ > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information