[Leica] Sally Mann and her lens

[Richard Man]

As a matter of fact, I am thinking about wet plate collodion, you know, for
that decisive, um, seconds.
On Dec 8, 2014 7:41 PM, "Montie" <montoid at earthlink.net> wrote:

> You're not sniffin that Potassium Permanganate again are ya?
>
> ;-)
>
> Montie
>
> >>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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