[Leica] M8 Sharpening filter use - was: full sized samples

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

The point I may be making dully is photography is about photographs.
And you look at a print and its either properly sharp or its not.
Plus all the other qualities which make or break a successful image.
A successful photograph.
Slides and uploads are ephemeral.  Smoke and mirrors. Look away... They're
gone.
And people trade 10's of thousands of dollars of gear back and forth to
achieve such a to me such dubious non results.
The proof is in the pudding and to me what I'm looking at on my monitor
ain't it.  It's Cool Whip.
Pudding is an image on paper.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 07:51:03 +0530
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] M8 Sharpening filter use - was: full sized samples
> 
> For Mark's knowledge, George is both a very good photographer and a
> superb print maker.
> 
> What I cannot understand is how does it make a difference how much or
> what type of sharpening is used, as long as the final print is great?
> Camera bodies are the most disposable part of your equipment in the
> digital age, and by the time you finish arguing the point on this
> forum, you will have half a dozen new bodies to argue about!
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>