Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Didn't President Lincoln order that no sketch artist use a pencil softer than a No. 2? ;-) On 6/5/06 10:18 PM, "Robert Schneider" <schneiderpix@mac.com> wrote: > ROFLOL > > Absolutely hilarious! > > Thank you. > > rs > ______________________________________ > > www.robertschneider.com > www.schneiderpix.com > > > > > > On Jun 5, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Marc James Small wrote: > >> At 08:57 PM 6/5/06 -0500, you wrote: >>> Capa never said "If your pictures aren't good enough, you need a 90." >>> >>> Jeffery Smith >>> New Orleans, LA >>> http://www.400tx.com >> >> Jeffery >> >> We have never met in person but, trust me, I love you like a >> brother and I >> look forward to the time when we meet in person. >> >> A 90mm lens is a wide-standard. A 40cm lens is a normal lens. >> Stay away >> from the folks and let them live their lives. >> >> The next time some jerk photojournalist shoulders his way into my >> face to >> take his pictures, he really will get an elbow in his jaws. You >> wide-angle >> folks do not understand how threatening you seem to those of us who >> are >> your targets. >> >> Capa's comment was cool for the time but was also full of BS -- >> President >> Truman, for instance, directed that no one at a Presidential Press >> Conference use a lens less that 50mm. >> >> Me? Now that I am retired, I do not expect to EVER appear again at a >> public function. But I have done so on frequent occasion over the >> past >> quarter of a century, and I have always told the Photo-Toads that I >> wanted >> a 12 foot (3m) circle of safety and that I'd clobber them if they came >> closer than that. They knew that I meant what I said, and I >> generally had >> some hefty friends along to emphasize the point. >> >> You wide-angle guys are simply sick. Get back to a decent >> distance, let >> the subject be okay, and shoot the picture with a 40cm Telyt. >> >> What YOU guys wish to do is to jam the camera into the jaws of the >> victim >> and get a horrified response. Jam a camera in my face, and you >> will get a >> horrified response, which will include the destruction of your camera. >> >> Wide Angle Dudes. Stay away. Learn long lenses. Understand that >> Duncan >> and Capa were speaking for what scientists call "special >> circumstances". >> >> I detest wide-angle lenses as they defy the very reason for >> photograhy -- >> documentig reality. Still, that 4.5/21 CZ Biogon did a hell of a >> hit at >> the Bridge at Mull in Ireland back in 2001. >> >> Marc >> >> msmall@aya.yale.edu >> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information