Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/27

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Subject: [Leica] Leica superiority or not
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:35:17 -0500
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On Jun 27, 2013, at 2:40 AM, Peter Klein wrote:

> Yeah, you can see the brush strokes, but you're missing the point. It's 
> not the details themselves that matter, it's how they look when blended 
> together at the size you're going to view the image.

Brush strokes, pigment quality, canvas or linen thread count, transparency ? 
matter to painters.
Just as lens qualities, films, sensors, papers, developers, inks, dyes ? 
matter to photographers.

Yes - they're "details."
Yes - the details determine how the whole appears to the viewer;
whether a discriminating, well informed viewer or not.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
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