[Leica] Sally Mann and her lens

[John McMaster]

I guess you have seen her photos/style.......

;-) john
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From:  Richard Man 

A commentary on our obsession with FLE ASPH ED OIS lens?

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I certainly could go out and buy a good, tack-sharp lens that would take
the perfect picture, that's in focus from end to end. But instead, I spend
an awful lot of time at that antique mall, looking around for these lenses
with just the right amount of decrepitude. The glue has to be peeling off
of the lens elements; it's great if it's mildewed and out of whack. A lens
is made up of several different pieces of glass, which are supposed to stay
glued in the right relationship with each other. But my most prized lens
has one of the pieces of glass askew, so when the light comes in it, it's
refulgent. It just bounces all around and does this great sort of
luminescent thing on the glass. You can tell a good ruined lens, right from
the get-go: they are the ones you find in the trash cans of old photo
studios, in some ghost town in Iowa. I mean, that's the kind of lens I'm
looking for.


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