Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:55 PM 11/30/2005, B. D. Colen wrote: >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. Understood, this is the rationale I use to spend the bucks to get the best lens normally. // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)