Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 3 Dec 97, Patrick G. Sobalvarro wrote: > Actually, the f/64 guys (Weston, Adams, Van Dyke, and their followers, > who in rebelling against pictorialism formed the f/64 school) don't > know anything very well. They're dead. But even when they were > alive, they couldn't have known very much about diffraction, or they > wouldn't have been under the impression that the name "f/64" would > connote ultimate sharpness. <snip> Yeah, watch those verb tenses, Eric. Actually, the f/64 gang may not have been thinking as much about sharpness as DOF. Have a look at my new and very elementary web site at: http://www.primenet.com/~beamon I've linked to the f/64 Group Manifesto, the forward of which mentions this. No photos yet as I have no scanner. Just trying to get conversant with HTML. Boy, what a job for an OF! (That's "old fellow", guys and gals!) No wonder I gave up on Basic, Fortran, C, Perl etc. And, HTML is easy by comparison. - -- Roger Beamon Naturalist & Photographer mailto:beamon@primenet.com Thought for the day: Success in politics often requires rising above your principles.