Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 15, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Vince Passaro wrote: > I thought the 75 Summicron was an ASPH lens... no? you are right, just looked it up...75 summicron ASPH... I have the 75 Summilux...is there also a 75 summarit? Steve > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at > gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> On Apr 14, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Vince Passaro wrote: >> >>> Rabs, >>> >>> That's what I'm sayin'. You know the history, you don't miss a trick. And >> as >>> I remarked in another thread, if hanging out on the LUG has taught me to >>> really worship one lens from a distance, ie seeing the pics but not >> coming >>> close to using or owning it, it's the 75 Summicron ASPH. >> >> >> is there such a puppy? >> >> >>> So I'm with you. >>> Plus my own aesthetic reaction to pictures causes me not to give a crap >>> about bokeh 99 percent of the time. Watching Apocalypse Now Redux with my >>> class today, there are moments of ghosting when they're shooting into the >>> low sun where you can count the blades on the aperture, easily. It's >> still >>> one of the three or four greatest American films. >>> >>> I realize that's a stupid example but it was on my mind.... >>> >>> Vince >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>>> There is an ecclesiastical position in most diocese of the Roman >> Catholic >>>>> Church called the Censor Librorum. It's this dude's job to determine >>>> whether >>>>> a text contains any errors of doctrine. "Censor" doesn't mean he (and >>>> yeah >>>>> it's always a male surprise surprise) cuts anything or prevents >> anything >>>>> from being published it just means he says whether or not the written >>>>> material is free of errors of doctrine. (In the middle ages if he >> didn't >>>>> sign off the work would not be suitable for distribution and the author >>>> if >>>>> he resisted correcting it would probably be burned at the stake but >> they >>>>> didn't have toilets then and now we do; long time ago.) >>>>> >>>>> Which means he has to be really good at *catching *errors of doctrine; >>>> has >>>>> to see the often underlying or imputed doctrinal implications of >> things. >>>>> >>>>> So for this reason I nominate Rabs as the LUG's Censor Librorum. It >>>> didn't >>>>> even occur to me to relate that passing "asph" comment to the hotly >>>> debated >>>>> issue of whether the contempo Leica glass is "hard" etc. But of course >>>> he's >>>>> right -- it was a direct hit. >>>> >>>> >>>> You're not reading it in the context of the litany of BS writing on the >> un >>>> Leica like hard or harsh look the aspherics gave when they came out a >> dozen >>>> years ago. >>>> I simply had the 16x20's printed on Ilford double weight fiber paper to >>>> prove it wrong. >>>> Leica has been on a winning streak with their progression of their lens >>>> design. They don't miss much. Its not likely that a bunch of guys buying >>>> and >>>> selling stuff on gear lists are going to point out the determent of >> their >>>> ways to them. >>>> >>>> [Rabs] >>>> Mark William Rabiner >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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