Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"... chasing of ambulances" <GASP> Does that mean Marc, that you're (horrors) a LAWYER? Say i ain't so, Marc, say it ain't so... - ---Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> wrote: > > Leica glass is tough. You do NOT have to baby it. Filters are fine, and > mine are stored in odd locations with filters on, though Jim and Ted and > Eric have so terrorized me that I no longer use them unless I am shooting > chromes. The outside of the lenses get dinged and dirty and crappy. The > glass will NOT wilt if you clean it with your shirt-tail, though I do not > do so. (My co-author, Charlie Barringer, the President of Zeiss Historica, > does the moral equivalent, having saved his chillun's diapers, his kids now > being in their 20's, and uses these to clean his REALLY rare lenses, on the > grounds that nothing is softer than a baby's rear end. It works: he makes > more in a year from selling glass than I do in the chasing of ambulances.) > > Don't panic, guys. Use logic and reason. Bare glass is best to shoot with > if, as I am, you wish to make images which are at the cutting edge of > technical precision. But filters have a role -- I would love to hear from > Jim or Ted that they shoot b&w outdoors without a yellow filter! Maybe > they do, but their foliage must look, well, skimpy -- and engaging > photographers know how to use them. > > Me? I am learning. I will be learning when the Black Camel Kneels At My > Door which, if I keep irritating women the way I do, will be quite soon ... > > Marc > > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com