Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeff Spirer wrote: > > At 09:09 AM 3/19/00 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > >A VERY interesting post ruined by this "wishful thinking" last paragraph, > >Mike. > >Showing a stack of prints to people is better "research" than the study of > >MTF graphs? > >And reduces the study of MTF graphs to "wishful thinking"? > > If the supposed end result of photography is a photograph that someone will > <cherish><show><sell><publish>, then the most important thing is the end > result. I have never successfully hung an MTF graph on the wall. I have > done the other things, and to be perfectly honest, Mike's methodology is a > lot more important to me than any scientific testing. > > I realize that many people, including many Leica owners, have cameras for > reasons other than making wonderful photographs, but that's another story, > and they can live happily with their MTF charts and carefully preserved > cameras. ><Snip> The point is that BOTH MTF graphs and real time same size print evaluations are both valuable and needed. Mark Rabiner