[Leica] Another camera classic bites the dust

[feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)]

Weeellllll, you can eliminate some optical problems in software, but 
not not all
of them. The rule of "You can't make chicken salad out of chickens*it"
still applies. ;-)

feli

On May 28, 2005, at 8:48 AM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> What's the 'ethical' philosophical difference between some optical 
> engineer
> twitching lens formulas endlessly to get rid of optical aberrations, 
> and
> then producing a lens that is only available to/useable by folks who 
> can
> afford to invest in a particular camera line - or chose to do so - and 
> a
> software engineer twitching 1s and 0s so that Photoshop - or some other
> software - can eliminate the same aberrations at a later point in the
> process, thus allowing anyone who can afford/obtain a copy of the 
> program to
> use whatever lens they like/can afford to get 'optically' similar 
> results?
>
> Not a damn thing in my book. The later may not bode well for the 
> financial
> survival of the former, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with 
> what is
> or isn't photography, or what is or isn't real. ;-)
>
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