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

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

<<You have a cheap camera? No biggie. Just put a hunk of real good glass on
the front of it nobodies going to care or know the difference.>>

Ah, but you don't say that when you're talking sensor size and toy cameras
and the like  -- your sentence describes the very attraction for poor folks
of cameras like the G1. I can put all my best glass on it. You mean film
cameras I assume.

V

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> > 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.
>
>
> These lenses represent the apogee of lens design. And their designers have
> not missed the subtleties of lens design that the guys on the gear lists
> know about and they do not. The very idea  of it is absurd.
> A Leica lens made in the past dozen years ago is the cr?me de la cr?me of
> lens design in the world period. Better than Zeiss made in Germany. Or
> Scheider. Or Rodenstock.  Or Nikon or Canon.
> It's the main reason to shoot Leica.
> You could hate rangefinder cameras and wish they'd just stick the stuff on
> DSLRS and STILL be shooting with them anyway because the glass is so much
> better. I'm sure lots of people are in that position.
>
> Those picture that were rejects - Had to be fished out of the pack because
> of harsh bokeh whatever? You're never going to see them.
>
> What your going to get with older lenes is you've paid less money for them
> becaue they're worth less.
> They have lower resolution and contrast. The things you want in a lens.
> The bottom line is glass.
> You have a cheap camera? No biggie. Just put a hunk of real good glass on
> the front of it nobodies going to care or know the difference.
>
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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