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 17:22:07 2005

So shoot with them!:-)


On 11/30/05 8:12 PM, "Richard" <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote:

> 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)
> 
> 
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