Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica]So long, Flare, we overknew ye.... was Shadow boxing
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:59:32 -0700
References: <Pine.NEB.4.21.0008081425540.22938-100000@panix2.panix.com>

At 5:13 PM -0400 8/8/00, ralph fuerbringer wrote:
>together at last: the flare twins, meyers and wullf,official flare quardians
>on the list.for the flair wulff uncovered in photographing  a brick wall
>he received the uncoveted DE award(double expose, sky first then the
>wall,get max flair)
> meyers contributions to flare myth  would require a 30 gigabite harddrive.
>still you cant fault these two tech nincompops for presumption.for
>their pathetic theory they demean a perfectionist, Philip Jones-Griffiiths.
>they imply he would skip a helpful preflash to speed up his own or magnums
>slide-copying,ignoring the best quality possible.there have been statements
>galore here that flare and preflashing involve inevitable and severe loss of
>definition and contrast. Philip Jones-Griffith statement to forget the
>preflash  was  unqualified. in practical terms it verifies the unqulalified
>one muddy meyers quoted from Erwin Puts:"the old story that you can use a
>low contrast and/or flare prone lens to compensate for high contrast in the
>scene is not accurate. flare adds nothing to the highlights,
>just muddies the dark." cant we get flare interested in somthing else, like
> the epson 1270? . humidity and ozone are having a ball turning stuff
>orange. flare, go there,give the orange a preflash.if it helps you'll be a
>hero, maligned no more.  ralph


....sheeesh....  since physics, politeness and reasonable discourse are out
the window, time to fade out on this one. :-)

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In reply to: Message from Edward Meyers <aghalide@panix.com> (Re: [Leica]So long, Flare, we overknew ye.... was Shadow boxing)