Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear LUGers, Tom Abrahamsson was in Chicago yesterday and I had the pleasure of meeting him face to face and spending the day with him. Is there anything he doesn't know about Leicas? I don't think so. Truly a nice man. Part of our day was spent at the Art Institute viewing a Brassai exhibit. Wow! It was a sobering experience. Many of us on the LUG (myself included) are drooling over the latest lenses and film, looking for maximum resolution and sharpness to the Nth degree. Here was a man using uncoated lenses and relatively crude film making images we would be hard pressed to make today-if we even could. There were photos taken at night that included people (they couldn't have been very long exposures), bare light bulbs with visible filaments and the shadows had detail. Talk about knowing your tools! I don't know how he did it. By today's standards, these photos were soft and had poor resolution. But they were incredible nonetheless. Maybe we should concentrate more on developing our vision as photographers and really learn how to use what we have, rather than lusting after every new thing that comes along. Is this sacreligious? I realize many of my fellow LUGnuts are very interested in equipment, optics, etc. As for myself, I have to do some serious thinking. ( Now how do I justify that 75 summilux?) :-) Boy am I conflicted! Richard W