Re: [Leica] Ultimate sharpness for portraits???? YUCK

[Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>]

At 09:38 PM 12/1/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Bob wrote:
>
><<<Perhaps one of the ways of using sharp lenses for portraiture is to
>simply use existing light and employ reflectors to change the intensity of
>wild light.>>>>>>
>
>Hi Bob,
>
>But I only use available exisisting light whenever I shoot and still in
>this case the matron continued to look like a ugly matron! :)
>
>Hell I could have used reflectors from breakfast to supper and it wouldn't
>have made it look any better. This kind of portrait situation using a 90mm
>Summicron is a mistake with older women, unless you use a softar filter,
>black gauze filter or wrinkle removing wrinkled cellophane. The bottom line
>is the 90mm Summicron is just too sharp and fantastic a lens to use on
>older women portraits! :) And not have them want to remove part of your
>anatomy!   Your head, your head! :)
>
>ted

Ted,

It must be really difficult to wrinkle-up the cellophane, and get the
cellophane wrinkles to line up with the subject's wrinkles ? Gotta hand it
to you.

Jim