Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've seen comments like this before from people I've taken portraits of using the 100mm APO. Somewhere in the past I've read that the softer 90mm lenses result in better portraits. I think the 100mm APO is great for floral close-ups, though. AGS - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:48 AM Subject: [Leica] Great exposures & sharpness don't...... > Hi Guys, > Sometimes you shoot a frame or two and you know you've captured the sharpest > properly exposed, lighting great picture & it's going to be a beauty! Then. > :-( > > Then you make an 11X14 print and you can count the eyelashes of this female > surgeon, the tonal range of the print is perfect, the Leica glass 100mm f > 2.8 macro lens used in an available light operating room setting, lens has > cut an image into film you might cut your fingers if not careful. > > You stand looking at all these photographic technical niceties and most of > all the great looking "only Leica Lens sharpness crispness, pure magic > technically speaking photograph." So what. > > Then you look at it and for all that wonderful technical stuff that some > folks rave on about, the great mm per line and squigglies to make any Leica > carrying member wet their pants over the Leica sharpness look! And what do > you have? > > You don't have to look very hard to realize you have a perfectly technical > everything picture that the techno freaks would drool all over while peeing > their pants! And? > > You just shrug your shoulders, " Oh well so big deal!" Throw it down on the > out pile. Why? There isn't any "LIFE IN THE PICTURE! :-( > > It's like one of those absolutely technical crisp everything metered to > death salon magic dead photographs that we are lead to believe, is the > ultimate Leica image on film and print! > > All the initial excitement is lost because the damn thing is way too perfect > without any feeling of heart or emotion. Technically great, but hell > there's an awful lot more to great pictures than being in zone 88, sharp and > perfect tonality. > > Sorry folks I don't know where the hell I'm going with this as it's sort of > letting it all hang out frustration! On the one hand I have this wonderful > sharp / crisp Leica glass cut photograph and unfortunately it just sits > there and does nothing! > > So you see sometimes it doesn't matter if you use a Leica on a tripod, the > slowest film on earth developed in the finest grain developer and the > techies are all excited at the look and what the expensive lens has cut in > film. But if there isn't any life to it what the hell have you got but a > very leica sharp picture. Big deal! :-( > > good night! > ted > > Ted Grant Photography Limited > www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html