Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They've come a long way from the one I used to own, a 73mm f/1.9 Hektor. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Barbour" <steve.barbour at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 11:20 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Wow, the last word on Bokeh, from Zeiss > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >