Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Félix López de Maturana <fmaturana@euskalnet.net> wrote: > >> my longest ever was the long end of a 80-200 n*kk*r > > > I humbly ask to anybody in the list why one cannot spell > completely the name of the gear who owns or have owned? > Is it a non wrote rule? I can't speak for anyone else but when I do this it's a (weak) attempt at humor, as though the name "nikkor" were an obscene word. > Another more complicated question: Does improve the > ability to create ART to have or to have not some special > brand equipment? Not always, but sometimes yes. In lighting conditions where excessive flare is possible, my experience is that a leica lens is more likely to produce the colors and detail I want in my photos. A lens with too much flare is an obscenity, IMHO. > Another even more complicated question : isn't it > possible to take beautiful pictures not in b&w? I know > many of the ancient great authors, and many members of > the list, worked in b&w but some more modern do in color; > just a remembrance for Ernst Haas for example...To do > mainly pictures in b&w "looks" like good pictures but not > always they are... I certainly think so. B&W and color photographs are different media, just as charcoal drawings are different from watercolor paintings. There's room for both. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html