Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. :-) * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com