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Subject: [Leica] Re: Erwin's Latest
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)
Date: Tue Jun 14 09:51:13 2005
References: <e7d99ce7f657.e7f657e7d99c@shaw.ca>

On Jun 14, 2005, at 7:10 AM, GREG LORENZO wrote:

> Which company was making the best glass in the world at that time?

Well, HCB did shoot with a LTM mount 1.5/50 Zeiss Sonnar for a many 
years, until the collapsible Summicron appeared... I think what sold 
him on the Cron was that it was compact, collapsible and acceptable 
sharp. It appears that HCB put great value on his cameras being 
compact.

He also said this:

"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."

and

  ???"I?m always amused by the idea that certain people have about 
technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness 
of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they 
hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I?oeil? They are, by the 
way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of 
photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus 
effects.  -Henri Cartier-Bresson, on technique. "American Photo", 
September/October 1997, page: 76


Personally I have yet to see a HCB print that is actually in focus, but 
I still love his work.


feli



> It seems HCB was concerned that his images were being exposed on a
> film plane with Leica glass in front of it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>
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