[Leica] Sally Mann and her lens

[Richard Man]

Peter, drop it a few times and may be the lens will become the sought-after
decemented version :-)

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
> > Chris Crawford
> > Fine Art Photography
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> >
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> >
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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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