Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/31

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Subject: [Leica] M8 Repair... Update
From: robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 06:36:41 -0500
References: <CA0984BC.F7E9%mark@rabinergroup.com> <D4E4B5FB-0757-4251-9DFF-5B436CD8E81E@btinternet.com>

==On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at 
btinternet.com
> wrote:

> The end product of photography is a print. Or it should be IMO. Getting
> from the vision to the end result requires several intermediate steps. The
> fact that one of these intervening steps in one of the several techniques
> possible to produce a print gives, in somebodies opinion, a superior
> potential may make it worthwhile investigating the other steps in that
> technique to see what is lacking if the technique does not achieve an
> overall superior result.
> Since, so far, most photographers producing prints have gone  -to- digital
> -from- a film workflow they presumably find the results at least equal. I
> find them superior myself, but I haven't used more than half a dozen B&W
> films since the 1960s, so maybe B&W is different.
> OTOH sharpness is not the main thing I look at.
> FD
>


Well stated.

Who was it who said "Sharpness is vastly overrated"?

--Bob


In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] M8 Repair... Update)
Message from Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie) ([Leica] M8 Repair... Update)