Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: soft focus vs out -of- focus in an ultimate sh
From: "Roger Beamon" <beamon@primenet.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 08:10:44 -0700

On  3 Dec 97,  Patrick G. Sobalvarro wrote:

> I think this is great!  The pictorialist movement in photography never
> died; it just went underground when the f/64 guys (who don't seem to
> have known about diffraction) beat up on it.  It lives on in the
> hearts of the people!

Whatever starts your engine, Patrick. I think Ansel and company were 
quite aware of diffraction but were sick of seeing so much of it and 
wanted to pursue photography for its strengths rather than what it 
could emulate.

- --
Roger Beamon  
       Naturalist & Photographer
       mailto:beamon@primenet.com
          
          Thought for the day:
      When in doubt...
      manipulate the data.