Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have an extremely high tolerance for photographs exhibiting marginal focus and exposure, so long as they are brilliantly articulate images. I have almost no tolerance for sloppy writing which almost always indicates sloppy thinking. However, if you think I am maniacal about sloppy writing, just try splitting an infinative in a message to Marc Small! Buzz Hausner > > From: SonC@aol.com > Date: 2004/06/23 Wed PM 12:57:28 EDT > To: lug@leica-users.org > Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: While it is happening (B. D. Colen) > > > In a message dated 6/23/2004 11:43:43 AM Central Standard Time, > ljkapner@cox.net writes: > > Those of us who learned and love to use the fully manual camera such as > Leica M series, with gorgeous, sharp optics, are probably just as put off > by > "out of focus" and "poorly composed" thoughts as we are similarly flawed > photographic images. > > And yes, just to place where I am along this spectrum, I find I am usually > offended by unintended unsharpness in a photograph! > > Len > > -- > And your position on unintentional sharpness? As I sit here looking at > what > you wrote, I'm wondering just what does offend you. (Probably this > question, though it is not meant to.) > -- > I see lots of photographs that have the life taken out of them by formal > composition, adherance to someone's rules on how a photographer should > behave, > and just plain old lack of imagination. I post lots of flawed shots but > I > like them, and I see lots of photos that thrill me while they plain old > just > ignore the rules. Language can be like that too. > -- > > > Regards, > -- > Sonny