Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>At 5:13 PM -0400 8/8/00, ralph fuerbringer wrote: >>together at last: the flare twins, meyers and wullf,official flare quardians >>on the list.for the flair wulff uncovered in photographing a brick wall >>he received the uncoveted DE award(double expose, sky first then the >>wall,get max flair) >> meyers contributions to flare myth would require a 30 gigabite harddrive. >>still you cant fault these two tech nincompops for presumption.for >>their pathetic theory they demean a perfectionist, Philip Jones-Griffiiths. >>they imply he would skip a helpful preflash to speed up his own or magnums >>slide-copying,ignoring the best quality possible.there have been statements >>galore here that flare and preflashing involve inevitable and severe loss of >>definition and contrast. Philip Jones-Griffith statement to forget the >>preflash was unqualified. in practical terms it verifies the unqulalified >>one muddy meyers quoted from Erwin Puts:"the old story that you can use a >>low contrast and/or flare prone lens to compensate for high contrast in the >>scene is not accurate. flare adds nothing to the highlights, >>just muddies the dark." cant we get flare interested in somthing else, like >> the epson 1270? . humidity and ozone are having a ball turning stuff >>orange. flare, go there,give the orange a preflash.if it helps you'll be a >>hero, maligned no more. ralph Request: ralph fuerbringer filter-to-trash. Request granted and gobbledegook terminated!