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Subject: [Leica] Re: 90mm's
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Tue Jun 6 09:02:51 2006
References: <C0AA5FD4.1181B%bdcolen@comcast.net>

Don't tell me you've forgotten what he told you already?

B. D. Colen wrote:

>Didn't President Lincoln order that no sketch artist use a pencil softer
>than a No. 2? ;-)
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>On 6/5/06 10:18 PM, "Robert Schneider" <schneiderpix@mac.com> wrote:
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>>ROFLOL
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>>Absolutely hilarious!
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>>Thank you.
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>>rs
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>>www.robertschneider.com
>>www.schneiderpix.com
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>>On Jun 5, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Marc James Small wrote:
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>>>At 08:57 PM 6/5/06 -0500, you wrote:
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>>>>Capa never said "If your pictures aren't good enough, you need a 90."
>>>>
>>>>Jeffery Smith
>>>>New Orleans, LA
>>>>http://www.400tx.com
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>>>Jeffery
>>>
>>>We have never met in person but, trust me, I love you like a
>>>brother and I
>>>look forward to the time when we meet in person.
>>>
>>>A 90mm lens is a wide-standard.  A 40cm lens is a normal lens.
>>>Stay away
>>>from the folks and let them live their lives.
>>>
>>>The next time some jerk photojournalist shoulders his way into my
>>>face to
>>>take his pictures, he really will get an elbow in his jaws.  You
>>>wide-angle
>>>folks do not understand how threatening you seem to those of us who
>>>are
>>>your targets.
>>>
>>>Capa's comment was cool for the time but was also full of BS --
>>>President
>>>Truman, for instance, directed that no one at a Presidential Press
>>>Conference use a lens less that 50mm.
>>>
>>>Me?  Now that I am retired, I do not expect to EVER appear again at a
>>>public function.  But I have done so on frequent occasion over the
>>>past
>>>quarter of a century, and I have always told the Photo-Toads that I
>>>wanted
>>>a 12 foot (3m) circle of safety and that I'd clobber them if they came
>>>closer than that.  They knew that I meant what I said, and I
>>>generally had
>>>some hefty friends along to emphasize the point.
>>>
>>>You wide-angle guys are simply sick.  Get back to a decent
>>>distance, let
>>>the subject be okay, and shoot the picture with a 40cm Telyt.
>>>
>>>What YOU guys wish to do is to jam the camera into the jaws of the
>>>victim
>>>and get a horrified response.  Jam a camera in my face, and you
>>>will get a
>>>horrified response, which will include the destruction of your camera.
>>>
>>>Wide Angle Dudes.  Stay away.  Learn long lenses.  Understand that
>>>Duncan
>>>and Capa were speaking for what scientists call "special
>>>circumstances".
>>>
>>>I detest wide-angle lenses as they defy the very reason for
>>>photograhy  --
>>>documentig reality.  Still, that 4.5/21 CZ Biogon did a hell of a
>>>hit at
>>>the Bridge at Mull in Ireland back in 2001.
>>>
>>>Marc
>>>
>>>msmall@aya.yale.edu
>>>Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>>>
>>>
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