Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]He said that he likes the Pentax 645 system because the lens were low contrast and he looked for that in his Leica and Canon gears. I have no idea why he likes them though. He didn't elaborate in the talk. As for me, I just get the bestest lens I can afford for that range, which means mostly 'luxes.... On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>wrote: > If Salgato is looking for a "low contrast lens" then it would have been > better he took some photo courses instead of economic courses As that's > photo dumb stuff 101. He's thinking a "low contrast lens" will give him > more > latitude he's wrong. Presumptuous of me to say? Well you do hear some real > misconceptions about basic photo craft coming from some top level people > old > timers or young timers. People who go to school to methodically study > something but when they switch to photography when they get out they decide > they're just going to be self taught deal. With photography being mainly an > avocation or self taught vocation there's going to be lots of wrong stuff > floating around. And now we have the internet. > > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]