Re: [Leica] Leica Quality versus Medium Format

["Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>]

Bill writes:

> Brutal sharpness is defined the dictionary.
> Look under brutal, the look under sharpness.
> Combine the two meanings and Voila!

The only applicable definition I could find is "unpleasantly accurate and
incisive."  But I fail to see how sharpness can be "unpleasantly accurate" when
lens designers have been dedicating their lives to obtain it for hundreds of
years.

It seems to me that the sharper a lens is, the better.  If you want to blur a
picture, throw a filter or something over the front of the lens, but don't
reject the lens because it is "too sharp."  You'll miss the sharpness on the
occasion when you really need it, and unless your photography fits into a very
restricted and unusual niche, such an occasion is likely to arise far more
frequently than the need to avoid sharpness.