[Leica] Sally Mann and her lens

[Chris Crawford]

When I was in college, my photography professor always told us, tongue in
cheek, ³If you can¹t make it good, make it big!²

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On 12/9/14, 12:06 AM, "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

>And the resulting garbage is printed HUGE and hung in art galleries.
>
>On 9 Dec 2014, at 04:09, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
>
>> A commentary on our obsession with FLE ASPH ED OIS lens?
>> 
>> ***********
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto
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