Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Use of leica camera
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:43:02 -0400

imx jotted down the following:

> As a corrolary to the main point, I may add that it is a very legitimate
> type of photography to try to record reality as accurate as you can and use
> by purpose specifically leica lenses (wich are leaders in the field of wide
> aperture high contrast-high resolution 35mm optics) to accomplish this.

LOL!!  Wonderful!  Of course, there's the little matter of only capturing
light (as opposed to sound, touch, smell, and taste of reality), the fact
that it's a miniscule slice of reality from a temporal point of view, the
loss of information necessary in translation from three dimensions to two
dimensions, and not not too subtle aspect of the photographer choosing in
which direction to point the camera and when to release the shutter.  Not
too much reality left, of you ask me.  There is no such thing as accurate
recording of reality: recording necessarily involves selection and points
of view.  Besides which, the whole notion of accuracy of reality can be
challenged.  Accuracy requires a standard, so the question becomes which
standard do we choose?

M.

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