Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 25/10/00 11:58 am, Mark Rabiner at mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com wrote: > I do like Erwin have some trouble with this seemingly worshipful view towards > the defects of a lens. > > Johnny: > "A picture where the flare/halo/coma/whatever is absolutely integral to the > way it..." > > I believe the use of old glass is simply a more sophisticated way of getting > what Hamilton got. > Fuzzy wuzzy's! (as Ansel would say) > Instead of sticking flagellated filters on the front of our glass we are just > using glass with wonderful crudities of design built right it! I've got mixed > feelings about it. horses for courses sometimes a holga is the right camera sometimes a summarit is the right lens sometimes an aspheric is what you need why deny yourself any riches? lenses are not a moral thing none of them are 'bad' 'bad' pictures can be taken with all of them ditto, probably, 'good' - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com