Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Erwin Puts wrote: > > Someone suggested that I might have said that the Summicron 50 and other > lenses are diffraction limited at f/8 and smaller. And therefore you should ><Snip> > But I admit that the phenomenology of the picture is a rich breeding ground > for semantic gymnastics. > > Erwin. I needed to check on this word and here it is!: phenomenology n. Philosophy. 1. The study of all possible appearances in human experience, during which considerations of objective reality and of purely subjective response are left out of account. 2. A movement based on this study, originated about 1905 by Edmund Husserl. study of the development of human awareness Edmund Husserl apparently died when a falling tree hit him in the middle of the woods! His last words translated from the french was" "Ouch that was loud!" Then his feet disappeared under the tree. Mark :-) Rabiner