Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jun 14, 2005, at 7:10 AM, GREG LORENZO wrote: > Which company was making the best glass in the world at that time? Well, HCB did shoot with a LTM mount 1.5/50 Zeiss Sonnar for a many years, until the collapsible Summicron appeared... I think what sold him on the Cron was that it was compact, collapsible and acceptable sharp. It appears that HCB put great value on his cameras being compact. He also said this: "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." and ???"I?m always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I?oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects. -Henri Cartier-Bresson, on technique. "American Photo", September/October 1997, page: 76 Personally I have yet to see a HCB print that is actually in focus, but I still love his work. feli > It seems HCB was concerned that his images were being exposed on a > film plane with Leica glass in front of it. > > Regards, > > Greg > ________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com no archive