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Re: R: [OM] Fast Wide Angles

Subject: Re: R: [OM] Fast Wide Angles
From: *- DORIS FANG -* <sfsttj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:01:15 -0500 (EST)

On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Marco Tomat wrote:

> This leads to the "subjective lens evaluation" topic. 

  Absolutely, and the greater part of photography is subjective.
Outside the technical/forensic/scientific fields,
(and there's plenty of subjectivity there, too)
the entire process should be in the service of your vision, and
not the other way around. The emphasis (obsession?) with the
technical has given us hordes of photographers who can and do
produce perfectly exposed and printed totally boring imagery.
   Use the equipment that produces exciting images in your
hands, under the conditions you shoot, with your subjects, etc.
Otherwise, you may as well be painting-by-numbers, IMO.
   Ansel Adams wrote of the un-sharp lens that Edward
Weston used, and how amazingly, this was not a big factor in his prints...
Suppose tomorrow Leicanonikon invented a perfect lens (20-105/1.2) and it
sold for $150.00. You go out and buy two. Then what ? 
  The same creative problems that have always been before us lie
untouched...
             Subjectivity is good and good for you.
                                        *= Doris Fang =*


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