Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > >Edward Meyers wrote: > >> > >> Aspherics didn't help Alfred Eisenstadt make the wonderful > >> Leica images in athe 1930s. It ain't the lens. It's the > >> person behind the lens. Ed > > > ed, > > he most certainly did not, as you point out. but if a.e. were alive today > and still making pictures, i'll bet he would have state of the art leica > equipment, just as he did in the '30s, and i bet his images > wouldn't be any > the worse for it. > > guy - --- Not that you asked, but Dr. Black Tape - who has one ASPH lens and swears by it - would like to make the following observations: 1. "It ain't the lens. It's the > >> person behind the lens. Ed" - This is what everything LUGers do and talk about doing is really all about; 2. "i'll bet he would have state of the art leica > equipment, just as he did in the '30s, and i bet his images > wouldn't be any > the worse for it. > guy" - He probably would, but the images would be radically different because of that. It's one thing to talk about differences between late generation pre-ASPHs and ASPHs, but when you start comparing 30s glass and ASPHs, and the images they produce, you really are getting into an apples/oranges kind of situation.