[Leica] Sally Mann and her lens

[Peter Klein]

I use the NON-FLE 35 Asph.  That's usually sufficiently decrepit for me.
If that is too good, I can go back to 1946 with a Summitar, or c. 1930 via
1962 with a Jupiter-8.
--Peter

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Chris Crawford <
chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >>
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