Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/30

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Subject: [Leica] Re: image quality
From: jimbrick@photoaccess.com (Jim Brick)
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:37:09 -0800

Most eloquently said Erwin. Bravo!

Jim

At 07:45 PM 10/30/98 +0100, Erwin wrote:

>The topic of image quality versus artistic expression has been discussed on
>this list quite a few times. The pictures of HCB have a timeless quality with
>respect to human interest. His pictures also show a near superb mastery of
one
>part of the essence of Leica photography: the art of the snapshot and the
>creation/selection  of a (surrealist) composition of a slice of time/space.
>
>...
>
>One may be very fond of and proud of an old Leica lens, in the
>same way as one can feel admiration for an older Harley motorcycle.
>The superior optical quality of the new generations of Leica lenses since
>about 1988 can add impact to the pictures. It gives the opportunity to show
>reality with curious and admiring eyes, because it can show image details and
>texture details and can capture the subtle working of light and shadows and
>colours in a way never recorded before.
>
>You may call it straight photography (in Adams and Westons style) but here we
>Leica users have a competitive advantage we should exploit. After all we buy
>Leica lenses because of its recording potential and we use the M because of
>its possibility to capture reality in the most demanding and/or fleeting
>situations.
>
>Erwin
> 
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