Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]sincd ed meyers hides behind a magnum name with his flare infatuation i'm offering one in rebuttal. philip jones-griffiths is not just a photographer of equal repute but is a technician without an equal among magnum photograpers. i once asked Philip Jones-Griffiths whether to get the preflashing attachment for the bowens famous slide copier. he said it was not just valueless but a handicap. he was doing or supervising (president of magnum at the time) tons of slide copying. if preflashing w/precise control is a handicap in a labratory setup what does the degrading imput of flare from an uncoated lens add to an outdoor portrait? meyers and wulff claim this is why the preflashing effect works: flare is so pushy and fast it gets to your film before your actual picture! flaretheewell,ralph > From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:45:04 -0700 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Shadow boxing > > At 4:01 PM -0400 8/7/00, Craig Roberts wrote: >> "The flare helps to get to that threshold so it takes slightly less image >> exposure to show up as density." - Ed >> >> >> Hmmmm. Thank you, Ed, but this sounds...almost literally...like smoke and >> mirrors, or a sophisticated practical joke. I prefer not to think about it >> any longer. My brain hurts. >> >> Craig >> "I wonder if they know about this at MIT" Boston > > Believe it. That's the way it works. Whether with mercury vapours, airport > x-rays, pre-flashing or flare. Once you get past that initial step, you > have a bit more sensitivity. The astronomy folks have done it for years, in > a very controlled fashion. > > As far as lenses are concerned, give me the flare free ones anyday. Just > like with some other problems earlier lenses had, you can raise your base > fog in various ways if you so desire, but getting rid of flare when you > don't want it doesn't happen (at least if it obscures or reduces detail). > > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com