[Leica] Retro Blast... IIIA and a Summar

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

At 04:55 PM 11/30/2005, B. D. Colen wrote:

>There's a difference Richard - and I say this with all due respect - between
>weird and interesting and crap. You're shooting with a crap lens. Not every
>photo from the 30s is flat and gray---look at some of the classic stuff. And
>as to the lens baby, it doesn't produce flat, gray photos -it's like turning
>an SLR into a view camera and screwing around with depth of field and
>perspective. I can understand shooting with an old screw mount - hell, I
>started with one myself - but I can't understand the attraction of what are
>clearly inferior lenses, when there are such good screw mount lenses
>available today.

Understood, this is the rationale I use to spend the bucks to get the best 
lens normally.


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