Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:46 PM 11/22/97 -0500, Leikon35@aol.com wrote: > Roger ---- Patrick (who I respect) wrote to me that his greivance was > with Irwin Putts. If that was the case, I was merely suggesting that > he converse privately with Irwin & not "flog a dead cat again". > > Marvin Let me just clarify Marvin's message a bit, because I think it could be misunderstood. I don't have a grievance with Erwin Puts, and I haven't sent any private messages about Erwin or his postings -- my messages have been here on the LUG, although one of these messages was from me to Marvin. At one point, I asked a question of Erwin, because I thought that Erwin might have said that there were no differences in the ways in which different lenses rendered out of focus parts of an image. Erwin responded to my question, and said (if I may touch briefly on a message that actually contained a great deal of information) that he thinks that different lenses may render the out-of-focus parts of an image differently, but he is skeptical about some of the differences people report and requires further evidence. I agree completely with this. I am a scientist by profession and I believe in controlled experiments and measurement, and I have always had the highest respect for Erwin's postings about lens testing, etc. I think that the original confusion resulted because he and I had been using the term "bokeh" differently, and I have now decided not to use that term anymore because it's too ambiguous. I don't have any grievances with Marvin, either! I have a great deal of respect for him, and find his messages and his opinions fascinating and informative. Marvin shares with us a great deal of information about Leicas that's unavailable anywhere else -- stuff I would never be able to find in my books, for example, and I have a lot of books about Leicas. I don't think I have any grievances with anyone on the LUG, although I used to be sore at Oddmund. Whew! We now return you to your regularly scheduled mailing list. - -Patrick