[Leica] Wow, the last word on Bokeh, from Zeiss

[passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)]

Rabs,

That's what I'm sayin'. You know the history, you don't miss a trick. And as
I remarked in another thread, if hanging out on the LUG has taught me to
really worship one lens from a distance, ie seeing the pics but not coming
close to using or owning it, it's the 75 Summicron ASPH. So I'm with you.
Plus my own aesthetic reaction to pictures causes me not to give a crap
about bokeh 99 percent of the time. Watching Apocalypse Now Redux with my
class today, there are moments of ghosting when they're shooting into the
low sun where you can count the blades on the aperture, easily. It's still
one of the three or four greatest American films.

I realize that's a stupid example but it was on my mind....

Vince

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at 
rabinergroup.com>wrote:

> > There is an ecclesiastical position in most diocese of the Roman Catholic
> > Church called the Censor Librorum. It's this dude's job to determine
> whether
> > a text contains any errors of doctrine. "Censor" doesn't mean he (and
> yeah
> > it's always a male surprise surprise) cuts anything or prevents anything
> > from being published it just means he says whether or not the written
> > material is free of errors of doctrine. (In the middle ages if he didn't
> > sign off the work would not be suitable for distribution and the author
> if
> > he resisted correcting it would probably be burned at the stake but they
> > didn't have toilets then and now we do; long time ago.)
> >
> > Which means he has to be really good at *catching *errors of doctrine;
> has
> > to see the often underlying or imputed doctrinal implications of things.
> >
> > So for this reason I nominate Rabs as the LUG's Censor Librorum. It
> didn't
> > even occur to me to relate that passing "asph" comment to the hotly
> debated
> > issue of whether the contempo Leica glass is "hard" etc. But of course
> he's
> > right -- it was a direct hit.
>
>
> You're not reading it in the context of the litany of BS writing on the un
> Leica like hard or harsh look the aspherics gave when they came out a dozen
> years ago.
> I simply had the 16x20's printed on Ilford double weight fiber paper to
> prove it wrong.
> Leica has been on a winning streak with their progression of their lens
> design. They don't miss much. Its not likely that a bunch of guys buying
> and
> selling stuff on gear lists are going to point out the determent of their
> ways to them.
>
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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