Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I actually agree with you; certain things are simply measurably better than other things (and certain ideas and certains ways of educating and certain works of art too). Indeed I usually agree with you. I was only trying to explain how the world looks to others nowadays, and also to point out that shiny bald unnuanced assertions don't do justice to your experience and your wisdom in these matters. And, agree with you as I might, I thought you likely launched against the wrong guy for a misperceived reason. Wendy, already overbudget on the M6 and 50mm but yearning for a 35, asked about the cheaper lens; he said it's great and he loves it; you invaded Iraq. The image of you standing and watching the prints emerge at $25 a pop and wondering what you might have done better, that will last in my mind for a long time, and it adds powerfully to the credibility of your opinions. > I do think there is such a thing as lens tests and specs. These are finite > numbers. And there is looking at a print. > I did at one point acutely get a Leica and a Summicron lens. > I made 11x14 fiber prints with it. > Saw the difference between those and what'd been getting with Nikkor. > Also make 16x20s and even I'm sure some 20x24's. > > I've printed 30x40s in a rental darkroom > Each sheet of paper cost me ten bucks. > Processing another fifteen bucks. Lets see .... That's 25 bucks a pop. > Watching a print like that come slowly out of the processor running RA-4 > chemisty a Kreonite you see what's sharp and what's not sharp in the print. > Each clump of grain has a name. > And you wonder if 50th of a second is really fast enough for a 50 > millimeter > lens. > If maybe you should have stopped down a few. Used a tripod. > If maybe you used a better lens than that fence in the background you'd see > the individual slats? > > And so on . > In other words stuff matters. > Not if your getting stuff back form the drugstore of posting jpegs to a > gallery but if you're output is critical then you stop making excuses and > get the best. > > My speakers cost 50 bucks each no ones paying me to listen to them. (Polks) > I don't own a car. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >