Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/14

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Erwin's Latest
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Jun 14 12:25:54 2005

Some snaps with a phone camera make me think one of those things could be
great fun. :-)


On 6/14/05 3:22 PM, "animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl> wrote:

> Some snaps with a phone,s camera.Made me wish i had a proper camera with 
> me.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album226
> best ,simon jessurun
> 
>> Sir Buzz of Belmont loves to say that focus and exposure are greatly
>> over-rated. And while his tongue is clearly well implanted in his cheek,
>> there is some truth in what he says - think about how many truly great
>> images you've seen that are not "sharp" and could easily have used another
>> stop of exposure. You don't look at them and think, 'if only' - rather,
>> you
>> look at the image and think, 'great shot!'
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/14/05 12:50 PM, "Feli" <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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>>> 
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>>> 
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