Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 14, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Vince Passaro wrote: > Rabs, > > That's what I'm sayin'. You know the history, you don't miss a trick. And > as > I remarked in another thread, if hanging out on the LUG has taught me to > really worship one lens from a distance, ie seeing the pics but not coming > close to using or owning it, it's the 75 Summicron ASPH. is there such a puppy? > So I'm with you. > Plus my own aesthetic reaction to pictures causes me not to give a crap > about bokeh 99 percent of the time. Watching Apocalypse Now Redux with my > class today, there are moments of ghosting when they're shooting into the > low sun where you can count the blades on the aperture, easily. It's still > one of the three or four greatest American films. > > I realize that's a stupid example but it was on my mind.... > > Vince > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at > rabinergroup.com>wrote: > >>> There is an ecclesiastical position in most diocese of the Roman Catholic >>> Church called the Censor Librorum. It's this dude's job to determine >> whether >>> a text contains any errors of doctrine. "Censor" doesn't mean he (and >> yeah >>> it's always a male surprise surprise) cuts anything or prevents anything >>> from being published it just means he says whether or not the written >>> material is free of errors of doctrine. (In the middle ages if he didn't >>> sign off the work would not be suitable for distribution and the author >> if >>> he resisted correcting it would probably be burned at the stake but they >>> didn't have toilets then and now we do; long time ago.) >>> >>> Which means he has to be really good at *catching *errors of doctrine; >> has >>> to see the often underlying or imputed doctrinal implications of things. >>> >>> So for this reason I nominate Rabs as the LUG's Censor Librorum. It >> didn't >>> even occur to me to relate that passing "asph" comment to the hotly >> debated >>> issue of whether the contempo Leica glass is "hard" etc. But of course >> he's >>> right -- it was a direct hit. >> >> >> You're not reading it in the context of the litany of BS writing on the un >> Leica like hard or harsh look the aspherics gave when they came out a >> dozen >> years ago. >> I simply had the 16x20's printed on Ilford double weight fiber paper to >> prove it wrong. >> Leica has been on a winning streak with their progression of their lens >> design. They don't miss much. Its not likely that a bunch of guys buying >> and >> selling stuff on gear lists are going to point out the determent of their >> ways to them. >> >> [Rabs] >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information