Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/14

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Erwin's Latest
From: s.jessurun95 at chello.nl (animal)
Date: Tue Jun 14 12:22:46 2005
References: <BED4A4F0.1907%bdcolen@comcast.net>

Some snaps with a phone,s camera.Made me wish i had a proper camera with me.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/album226
best ,simon jessurun

> Sir Buzz of Belmont loves to say that focus and exposure are greatly
> over-rated. And while his tongue is clearly well implanted in his cheek,
> there is some truth in what he says - think about how many truly great
> images you've seen that are not "sharp" and could easily have used another
> stop of exposure. You don't look at them and think, 'if only' - rather, 
> you
> look at the image and think, 'great shot!'
>
>
> On 6/14/05 12:50 PM, "Feli" <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>>>
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