Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: soft focus vs out -of- focus in an ultimate sharpness world
From: "Patrick G. Sobalvarro" <pgs@sobalvarro.org>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 00:04:48 -0800
 
At 07:57 PM 12/2/97 -0600, Eric Welch wrote:
>I have a friend who uses an old Sima soft focus lens he bought in Canada
>back in '82 for $69 (Canadian!). It uses a T-mount, so it could be put on
>Leicas!
>
>He uses it to this day to shoot weddings, portraits and makes thousands of
>dollars with it, and people just love his pictures. They're so soft and
>fuzzy. <bleah!>

I think this is great!  The pictorialist movement in photography never
died; it just went underground when the f/64 guys (who don't seem to have
known about diffraction) beat up on it.  It lives on in the hearts of the
people!