Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My one and only visit to a camera club (the Montreal Camera Club) impressed me with their obsession with sharpness. It seemed to be the overwhelming characteristic by which they judged photographs. Thye would present a beautiful nature shot (well, to my untrained eyes, at least), and then proceed to shoot it down in flames because of some apparent unsharpness (which I couldn't even pick up most of the time). I never went back. Dan C. At 10:49 AM 29-10-98 -0500, you wrote: [snip] > >In the HCB 90th birthday edition of American Photo magazine, >he described modern photography as fostering "an unhealthy >obsession with the sharpness of the image". > >As a recent (and more than slightly unwilling) member of a >camera club, I'm getting a first-hand look at this obsession. >Recently a local pro came in to judge a B&W print competition, >and his singular complaint about the images was a lack of >sharpness: "Nice shot. To bad you didn't use a tripod." > >Sharpness; contrasty, saturated colours; printing and lens >effects - these seem to be the motivators behind much of the >photography I've seen at the club. > [snip] > >Paul Chefurka > > > >