Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Visiting what? J. ;) At 09:38 PM 12/27/00 -0500, Martin Howard wrote: >Jim Brick jotted down the following: > >> M. You completely missed my point. The point of the entire post. > >Then perhaps you should have stated it more clearly. It appeared to me, who >is of normal intelligence and average native English reading ability, that >the point of your message was that taking bokeh into consideration would >require additional lenses (based presumably on the unstated assumption that >lenses with good bokeh are necesarily different from any other lenses one >might own) that must be brought with the photographer at any time he/she >wishes to go out and take pictures. > >My point was that many people already have duplicates of focal length or >equipment -- sometimes in different formats -- which are chosen depending >upon what the picture-taking scenario is. We very rarely, if ever, haul all >our gear, but rather choose those pieces suitable for a given situation. >Why should this situation be any different? If you're going to take >sweeping landscapes where everything is pin-sharp in focus, then obviously >bringing along that 1960's 90mm Summicron for its bokeh is going to be a >little superfluous and the more compact and lighter 90mm APO-ASPH would >probably be a better choice. > >M. > >-- >Martin Howard | >Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | People don't like to be parameters >email: howard.390@osu.edu | in an equation. >www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +--------------------------------------- >