Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/30

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Subject: [Leica] Retro Blast... IIIA and a Summar
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Nov 30 16:55:20 2005

There's a difference Richard - and I say this with all due respect - between
weird and interesting and crap. You're shooting with a crap lens. Not every
photo from the 30s is flat and gray---look at some of the classic stuff. And
as to the lens baby, it doesn't produce flat, gray photos -it's like turning
an SLR into a view camera and screwing around with depth of field and
perspective. I can understand shooting with an old screw mount - hell, I
started with one myself - but I can't understand the attraction of what are
clearly inferior lenses, when there are such good screw mount lenses
available today.


On 11/30/05 5:13 PM, "Richard" <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote:

> At 01:41 PM 11/30/2005, B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> I'm not Ted, and I don't play Ted on t.v. - But good God, is this really a
>> serious question..."assume that the flat contrast is from the lens
>> alone...do you think a lens like this is more detrimental than adding to"
>> the photos? No, of course not, not unless you actually like flat, washed
>> out, gray images. There's a reason that Leica no longer makes the same
>> lenses it made in the 1930s! :-)
> 
> That is a serious question. I guess the question is "how many people like
> the 30s look?" :-) I mean not everything of course, but clearly photography
> isn't always about the most detailed, the highest contrast? I mean, there
> are people shooting with Holga, Lomo, Lensbaby etc.! (but I confess I have
> never tried any of those)
> 
> 
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please
> use richard at imagecraft.com)
> 
> 
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