[Leica] Highly Intelligent Crop Factor Overview

[Lluis Ripoll]

AMEN!
Lluis

El 05/01/2015, a las 05:28, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> escribió:

> My last words on this. :-) TRUE! :-)
> No matter how much I read the messages? All that happened was I became more
> stupid than I was before I started! But that's quite simple for a non-techie
> type like me.. 
> 
> See once I learned how to put film in a camera or change a lens I never
> bothered with anything else. Oh yeah and what ASA meant and how to set a
> hand meter eventually moving along to some of the built in cameras.
> 
> Oh I had to learn how to use a 4X5 Speed Graphic, load film holders and
> magazines. Oh yeah and soup the film in little 4'X4' film souping rooms!
> Here's how? :-)
> 
> Boss man says: "OK Ted never mind that tiddly little plaything camera,
> here's a man's camera! Pay attention as I'm  going to only show you once how
> it works in the next few minutes before you go out on your first
> assignment."
> 
> And he did! :-(  Like in about 15 minutes was the "HOW TO LESSON!" Just one
> show and tell all the details followed with>>>>>>>> "OK ? DON'T WORRY, JUST
> REMEMBER TO PULL THE SLIDE AND REPLACE IT BEFORE CHANGING MAGS! AND YOU ONLY
> HAVE 12 SHEETS."
> 
> "OH YEAH, YOU HAVE TO COCK THE SHUTTER BEFORE EACH SHOT! DON'T WASTE FILM AS
> YOU CAN GET GREAT PHOTOS WITH TWO SHOTS!"  And I did my 3 assignments that
> evening and didn't screw-up anything! :-)
> 
> Then 65 plus years later you guys come along with all this digi- crop (I
> nearly put CRAP?") ;-) So frustrated, I called my LUG friend Henning Wulff
> and asked him to please explain what are they talking about? 
> 
> He did very simple and eloquently! Thank you Henning very much. And yes he
> explained it very gently so that as we spoke I understood exactly what all
> these major concern's were all  about. We said "Good bye" and I forgot most
> of what he said as we hung-up! Oh well !!!:-( YOU DIDN'T REALLY THINK I'D
> REMEMBER DID YOU?" 
> 
> MY RESPONSE? It's completely meaningless unless you happen to be a "Major
> Techno Freak !" More concerned about digital tiddily thingies of crop and
> image size of all those little things that make a print on  a page! The
> "REALITY?" In 99.99% of the time? It doesn't matter! Unless? 
> 
> Once again "ONE IS A TECHNO FREAK!"  OR unless you have a magnifying glass
> to search the image to see the difference. None of all this "crop stuff"
> isn't going to make your photography any better?
> 
> What I'm constantly telling you!!!!!!!! "IT'S THE CONTENT THAT COUNTS!" Sure
> we want beautiful prints anytime! That's a given! But what you guys see and
> what I see must be astronomical differences? I've spent  several months
> printing Number 1 Son's Iphone photos! I tried 13X19 size and scrubbed it
> immediately! Looked something like  B&W film at ASA 6400 for grain or
> whatever those little digi things are called? Drop the print size to 11.7 X
> 16.5 and they're smashing great prints of smashing great content! Colour &
> B&W!
> 
> OK my relationship  with so much of the constant meaningless diatribe that
> comes up for weeks on end! I'd bet a $100.oo that the ratio of CREW who
> understand what you're talking about, compared to those who don't have a
> clue what it's all about is ONE in 500!
> 
> It's something like the "viewfinder on the M8!" Has some kind of thing about
> it the techie folks don't like?
> 
> ME? Hell I didn't know there was as I pop lenses on mine..................
> 15mm, look through camera view finder all looks cool? Square the center
> point. CLICK! I look at the screen? OOPS! I make an adjustment returning to
> the M8 view-finder.... CLICK!  And the image looks cool!
> 
> Pop on my Noctilux ??  "CLICK!" What you see is what you get! A COOL
> NOCTI-PHOTO.:- Oh what was that "problem with the view finder???????? 
> 
> There you go CREW the old guy needs a nap.
> 
> See Ya... have fun with the cropping whatever that means?  :-) :-)
> 
> cheers,
> The "mean-ass Dr. ted!"  :-) (( Or whatever description you wish to hang on
> him? )) ;-)
> 
> 	
> 
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