Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] PORTRAIT LENS: Summicron, Elmar, Elmarit?
From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 12:31:54 +0200
 
From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 18:14
Subject: Re: [Leica] PORTRAIT LENS: Summicron, Elmar, Elmarit?


> While the buffs on one side of the shutter curtain would
> love to have the priviledge of having the sharpest lens
> that money can buy, their subjects on the other side would
> squirm at seeing their every blemish, pock mark,
> zit and what have you recorded on film for posterity.

Blur it when you expose the prints, or scan it and apply a light blur in
Photoshop.  Indeed, in Photoshop you can do a great deal to eliminate zits and
other imperfections--magazines do it all the time.

  -- Anthony