Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/18

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Subject: [Leica] Re: On Excessive Sharpness
From: George Huczek <ghuczek@sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 06:13:48 -0600

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.  


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[o] -GH