Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/25

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Subject: [Leica] Help with Nocti
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:24:56 -0800
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On Jan 25, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:

> Many years ago, I was a nerd. Very recently, I was a nerd. Actually, I 
> still am.
> 
> I loved anything to do with physics from early on, certainly by the time I 
> was 5 and got my first mechano (Marklin) construction set. Later I did a 
> lot of electronics, mechanics, and chemistry also when it had to do with 
> rockets.
> 
> In University I studied physics and math and got some degrees in them. All 
> the optics courses I could accommodate were included.
> 
> My artistic side had a shot with painting, sculpture and photography, 
> which I started with a 6x9 folder at 7 and darkroom work shortly after. 
> Later I also became an architect.
> 
> I love photos and photography, but I always wonder 'why' and 'how', just 
> as I do in architecture or other things.
> 
> When I get new equipment, I go out and shoot anything that doesn't run 
> away fast enough, but I also try to find out what is special about every 
> piece of equipment; what are its strong and weak points so that I know 
> when to take it with me and when to leave it, depending on what I'm going 
> out to shoot and how I'm feeling about my proposed subjects. When I 
> photograph, I like surprises, but even more I like knowing beforehand what 
> 'surprising' thing I can produce with certain equipment under certain 
> circumstances. The 'oh, rats!' type of surprises I like a lot less.
> 
> So I try out equipment, and when I feel I understand it reasonably well, I 
> can feel confident when taking it out shooting. All the little techie bits 
> I've learned about the equipment, the lenses, lets me use those 
> aberrations which might otherwise spoil a picture to my advantage.
> 
> Very often it's not necessary to know all the techie bits, but it's better 
> to know them and be able to put them aside than not understand why a photo 
> got screwed up.


that's why I always read your comments Henning, you understand the nerd at 
the service of the artist, so you say it, and you show it very well,


Steve


> Henning
> 
> 
> On 2012-01-25, at 9:57 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 25, 2012, at 9:40 AM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> Marty Deveney OFFERED:
>> 
>>>> None of this matters if you don't care, or don't see the abberrations
>>> or don't know what the results of the aberrations look like.  I see
>>> them because I look for them and have gone out of my way to learn what
>>> various aberrations look like in a print.  Some of them produce
>>> effects I like, some I live with, some I only notice if I go looking
>>> for them.<<<<<
>> 
>> Hi Marty and others,
>> This series of posts about the many good, bad and uglies of the Noctilux 
>> f 1.0 for me has been very enlightening!
>> 
>> I'm not being a smart ass with that comment, simply because once again 
>> the LUG has become a most interesting learning tool. WHY?
>> 
>> Well all the things technical pointed out against or within the lens are 
>> items I never knew were there, nor do I understand the technical meanings 
>> of many of the word descriptions. Nor what to look for? I don't think 
>> that means I'm stupid or don't care. It is interesting.
>> 
>> But because I never knew about it, nor do I look for many of the things 
>> you lads have pointed out. I'm quite surprised someone hasn't looked at 
>> my Noctilux exposed photographs, many printed as 16X20 exhibition prints 
>> in trays. And said something along the lines you lads are talking about 
>> and are describing?
>> 
>> Me? It's the same old story..... "I'm a photographer first and foremost!" 
>> A techie second or wherever it fell during my hundreds of assignments. 
>> The one thing I have always strived for, are the feelings of myself when 
>> I've been lucky and have a nice moment captured on film, or these days 
>> digital and it printed well and looked cool on occasion. :-)
>> 
>> And once in awhile a viewer makes a nice compliment about my abilities 
>> with a camera. Not often, once in awhile is nice! ;-)
>> 
>> I suppose if one doesn't know about all of the negative aspects 
>> explained, then the negative aspects do no harm to your photographs, 
>> because you look only at the "CONTENT!" And because that has always been 
>> my motto, what I've shot for and the end result looking as smashing as 
>> possible, I'll keep what has been said in some dusty old corner of my 
>> mind. But really not pay any attention to them and carry on shooting as 
>> I've done for 61 years. Content first and foremost!
>> 
>> Thanks everyone for broadening my understandings about lenses.
>> cheers,
>> Dr. ted
>> 
>> Totally understand and agree Ted. And I certainly comprehend the tech 
>> stuff, it's only a question of.. Is it of primary importance and worth 
>> the effort?
>> re the endless techie comments, it brings to mind one of my favorite 
>> observations...
>> if you can't do, teach...if you can't teach, teach gym...
>> 
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> Henning Wulff
> henningw at archiphoto.com
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