Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/22

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Subject: [Leica] Doomed: Leica MP 0.58x
From: daniel.ridings at edd.uio.no (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sat Jan 22 03:54:16 2005
References: <NEBBJDFBIKOBILIKPPBNOEPCBBAB.red735i@earthlink.net> <Pine.SOL.4.58-L.0501220604220.20612@hedvig.uio.no> <8BD0665D-6C53-11D9-90AC-000D933F4332@earthlink.net>

To my knowledge, if you read my post, I said "take a fantastic lens".

I doubt very very seriously that the pro lenses (= fantastic lenses) from
Canon are chicken shit. Anyone who says they are is reacting more from
their religious convictions rather than aesthetic experiences.

Daniel


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Feli wrote:

> Because it's not the same. You can fix a lot of things with post
> processing,
> but at the end of the day you can't make chicken salad out of chicken
> shit.
>
> feli
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>
> > Why bother with a Leica lens when you can take a fantastic lens and
> > tweak
> > the rest in Photoshop? The difference is so small you wouldn't even
> > lose
> > any tonality.
> >
> > Software is where it is at now, not glass. Everyone has good glass.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
>
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