Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:49 PM 17/03/99 -0800, you wrote: >IMHO, this is simply an opinion of and by HCB. Neither correct, nor >incorrect. Simply "his" opinion. > Keep in mind as well that photographic trends go through periods where the emphasis seems to shift from one style to another. For example, consider the different historical trends from the pictorialists during the Successionist movement (like Clarence White), who created soft effects using alternative processes, the F64 group with folks like Adams and Weston that aimed for maximum print sharpness in gelatin silver prints, and so on. Photographic styles change, depending on whose images are having the major influences. This is very evident in advertising work as well. Someone does things differently, it catches on, then for a while everyone seems to be doing the same thing, until someone else comes along and sets a new trend. A sharp, well-corrected lens gives you the opportunity to produce photos which are either very sharp, or very soft, depending on how it is used and how the resulting photo is produced. The same can not be said for lenses which lack sharpness; they can not be used to produce sharp pictures. _ [o] -GH