Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My own response is to agree with joe's excellent remarks on this matter. Even my children from the time they were eight or so could "see" the difference in Leica prints and enlargements over competing Canon equipment that I had used from time to time. Paul T. Collura pcollura@epix.net > From: "joe b." <joe-b@dircon.co.uk> > Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 12:56:03 +0100 > Subject: Re: Emotive lenses > > My own (uninvited!) response to this is to suggest that trying out a > Leica outfit and looking at the results might provide more useful > evidence for system selection than any scientific explanation of why a > lens does what it does. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, not > in the analysis of the recipe. Ultimately, it's what the results look > like that we have to live with after spending the money. I saw a look, > or character, in my first Leica photographs I'd never seen before with > any other equipment and I knew I wanted that look. I made a decision I > can live with. In fact I get happier about it all the time. :-> > - -- > joe b. >