Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/13

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Subject: [Leica] Leica M Monochrom
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:26:42 +0200
References: <CAF8hL-EP-wB1RYxQQtpQ+wxWHAwW_GU5S8Y18jeR7=QYrv4y0g@mail.gmail.com> <CBFE7653.27792%bd@bdcolenphoto.com> <CAFfkXxubUOzLD6VAVs0APw8+fENUiiuH7aUULdncLGjxvUnVRw@mail.gmail.com>

the client knew nothing; Angenieux ARE the dream lenses period!
the rest is imagination or fantasy ;-)
Philippe, father of two
well, ang?nieux I mean


Le 13 juin 12 ? 23:17, Sonny Carter a ?crit :

> Once I had just been delivered a new 9.5-57 Angenieux zoom lens for  
> our
> production camera, and a client hands me a pair of pantie hose.  He  
> wants
> me to put the over the lens to add a "dreamy quality" to the image.
>
> I explained that once the dream is there, it can't be undreamed.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:01 PM, B. D. Colen <bd at bdcolenphoto.com>  
> wrote:
>
>>> Thinking about the MM, I find myself wondering why one would pay a  
>>> $1000
>>> premium for an already extremely expensive digital camera stripped  
>>> of
>>> what, for me, is one of the greatest attractions of digital - the  
>>> ability
>>> to think black and white, produce wonderful black and white  
>>> images, but
>>> always have a color "negative." Shooting with a color sensor  
>>> allows me to
>>> go back to my images years later and discover something that I  
>>> thought
>>> should be a black and white image is, in fact, extraordinary in  
>>> color.
>>> Yes, taking off the bayer filter allows for an otherworldly level of
>>> sharpness. But photography, for me at least, is not about etching  
>>> with a
>>> razor blade, it's about catching moments that show us things about  
>>> the
>>> human condition we see every day yet fail to see because they are  
>>> so much
>>> a part of our lives. I don't care about being able to count the  
>>> number of
>>> fibers in the thread holding a button onto someone's collar, I  
>>> instead to
>>> see the joy, or pain, in their eyes.
>>
>> End of quite rant.
>>
>>
>>
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>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>
> USA
>
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Leica M Monochrom)
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