Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Michael Darnton wrote: > > I understand Mike's posting perfectly. "Scientists" have reduced my field > (violinmaking) to a bunch of result-free drivel with their wishful thinking. > MTF might very well be a useful concept, but to reduce the whole of the > qualities of a lens to one single parameter strikes me as, well, absurd > minimalism. Simplification of concepts to numbers appeals greatly to > scientific types, and is certainly a useful strategy for developing > products, but in the acoustics field, at least, I've noticed that the > science types like to zero in on the things they can measure as being the > important things, and snub the things they can't measure as being > unimportant (classical sour grapes, in case you missed my connection). In > the main, it hasn't fooled violinists, however, and it doesn't sound like > the approach fools every photographer, either. > --Michael Darnton > Michael, Thanks for the reality check! Dennis