Somehow, I believe many have lost their way.
It's not about dollars or the lens or the body, or
what some magazine or a pentax user says about
performance, it's simply about the man or woman
pressing the shutter - the vision, the composition,
and maybe most important, the soul within the
rendering. A photographer with passion will make a
great pix with an instamatic.
Sorry to vent - martin
--- Mike Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan wrote:
>
> > I wish it were possible to see high quality photos
> taken with
> > each lens, best illustrating its strengths and
> weaknesses in terms of
> > bokeh, tonal rendition, distortion, flare, close
> focus, etc., on a few good
> > films of each type-that would do more for me than
> any number of graphs or
> > numbers. So, why don't magazines do that? (or do
> they?)
>
> I would guess because of the vagaries of magazine
> reproduction. It's a funny
> game--there's really not a lot of control over it.
> At least I didn't ever
> feel I had much more than rudimentary control of
> repro at _PHOTO
> Techniques_. Also, I once had a chance to compare
> one of Bill Eggleston's
> books with a box full of the original prints the
> plates were made from. It
> was pretty instructive. The book reproductions
> weren't very close.
>
>
> > He sounds like a hypocrite in addition to being a
> snob and and a cranky old
> > fart. What are his negative traits? <g>
>
> Henri has no negative traits. Only positive ones.
> Don't make fun of old
> people, Dan, or God won't let you be one. <s>
>
> --Mike
>
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