Re: [Leica] Leica Quality versus Medium Format

[George Day <george@rdcinteractive.com>]

Insufferable.  It's also a matter of contrast, etc., etc., etc.  Look, get
this through your head:  some people like the look of some optics; others
like the look of other optics; your experience is woefully limited and you
would do better to ask, as others have pointed out, "gee, really?  Why did
that person come to that conclusion?" rather than spout off the way you do.

on 8/2/01 4:42 AM, Mxsmanic at mxsmanic@hotmail.com wrote:

> 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.