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Subject: [Leica] Re: So long, Flare, we overknew ye.... was Shadow boxing
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:23:19 -0700
References: <B5B5F04F.225E%rof@mac.com> <Pine.NEB.4.21.0008081425540.22938-100000@panix2.panix.com>

>At 5:13 PM -0400 8/8/00, ralph fuerbringer wrote:
>>together at last: the flare twins, meyers and wullf,official flare quardians
>>on the list.for the flair wulff uncovered in photographing  a brick wall
>>he received the uncoveted DE award(double expose, sky first then the
>>wall,get max flair)
>> meyers contributions to flare myth  would require a 30 gigabite harddrive.
>>still you cant fault these two tech nincompops for presumption.for
>>their pathetic theory they demean a perfectionist, Philip Jones-Griffiiths.
>>they imply he would skip a helpful preflash to speed up his own or magnums
>>slide-copying,ignoring the best quality possible.there have been statements
>>galore here that flare and preflashing involve inevitable and severe loss of
>>definition and contrast. Philip Jones-Griffith statement to forget the
>>preflash  was  unqualified. in practical terms it verifies the unqulalified
>>one muddy meyers quoted from Erwin Puts:"the old story that you can use a
>>low contrast and/or flare prone lens to compensate for high contrast in the
>>scene is not accurate. flare adds nothing to the highlights,
>>just muddies the dark." cant we get flare interested in somthing else, like
>> the epson 1270? . humidity and ozone are having a ball turning stuff
>>orange. flare, go there,give the orange a preflash.if it helps you'll be a
>>hero, maligned no more.  ralph

Request:

ralph fuerbringer filter-to-trash.

Request granted and gobbledegook terminated!

In reply to: Message from ralph fuerbringer <rof@mac.com> (Re: [Leica]So long, Flare, we overknew ye.... was Shadow boxing)
Message from Edward Meyers <aghalide@panix.com> (Re: [Leica]So long, Flare, we overknew ye.... was Shadow boxing)