Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Pictures in hell
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:24:47 -0500

Henning J. Wulff jotted down the following:

> At 8:14 PM -0500 1/23/01, Martin Howard wrote:
>> Guy Bennett jotted down the following:
>> 
>>> P.S. In optical paradise, everything is in focus all the time, bokeh has
>>> been eradicated, and only correctly exposed pictures are permissable.
>> 
>> Guess I'm destined for hell then.
>> 
>> M.
> 
> I guess then that in hell, nothing is ever in focus, all is bokeh,
> and all pictures are either grossly overexposed or underexposed.

If the optical afterlife is divided into Optical Heaven and Optical Hell and
*only* those two, and the attributes of Optical Heaven are (A) everything is
in focus all the time, (C) bokeh has been eradicated, and (C) only correctly
exposed pictures exit, then Optical Hell must, by conclusion, contain
everything which fits "not (A and B and C)" which is quite different from
that which fits "(not A) and (not B) and (not C).  Consequently, a correctly
focused, correctly exposed picture with portions of the frame out of focus
must belong to Optical Hell.  Which is where I'm heading ;)

M.

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