Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:27 PM 10/4/96, dlevy@worldy.com wrote: >At 09:13 04/10/96 -0400, you wrote: >>Prior posts: >>... Somehow the lenses have >>the ability to make the subject pop out from the background in an uncanny >>way. ... >>... some inferior Japanese lenses are very sharp yet don't have the same >>emotive quality; rather it seems to be an ability to differentiate planes >>somehow or to somehow create the illusion of three dimensions in a >>two-dimensional medium more so than is true of other lenses. >> >>Rather than *specifications* Leica lenses truly do have *character*. As >>hard as that variable is to scientifically quantify and replicate, to the >>frustration of many, it is no less true despite what some would have us >>believe. > >How true, > >This was proved to me when I was in several slide competitions several years >ago. For the fist several, I had produced entries from my etrs with the 35mm >back. The very last slide in the series was from the Leica. When it was >shown, more than several noticed the difference. Some of the 'older' (more >experienced?) among them almost immediately asked if the single slide had >been taken with a Leica. The etrs slides were more than equal to the >competition and some had thought they were from a Nikon so it wasn't >attributable alone to that the etrs. To this day, there appears to be more >'involvement' emotionally when the Leica is used than other cameras exhibit. > >As an audiophile, I equate this listening to 2 excellent systems. I would >equate the Leica with the system using tudes and the others to the solid >state system. The solid state system may be more analytical, but sometimes >as a result the sum does not equal the parts. Now, the only problem, where >does the 12AX7 go in the M6? >Brian Levy, J.D. >Toronto, Ont. >dlevy@worldy.com Brian I have to add a big ditto here as a Leica user and a tube amp user. Rock and roll guitar players tend to depend on the listener-friendliness of their old Fender and Marshall tube amps in their work, and I really suspect most Leica users would appreciate the sound of a nicely set up Macintosh stereo (and a Macintosh computer that doesn't have tubes but is almost as friendly/emotive!) Chapel Hill, NC Although love may fail, courtesy should prevail.