Digital BW, The Print

on 9/6/2002 9:45 PM, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com at
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:46:07 -0400
> From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...>
> Subject: RE: Shooting digital vs. film
> 
> 
>> Leica and Contax lenses once were the best in the world. That's no
>> longer true. Today, several lenses can and do produce sharper images
>> than Leitz.
> 
> Sigh, Jerry.  Sharpness isn't everything to everyone, like it is to you.
> Fuji MF lenses are amongst the sharpest lenses available, but the out of
> focus rendering of these lenses is miserable.  It makes the images difficult
> to look at, and IMO, makes the lenses unusable for anything you want decent
> "bokeh" with.
> 
> The fact is, most Leitz and Zeiss lenses DO have better "bokeh" than most
> any other manufacturers lenses.  They design them that way intentionally.
> 
> Austin

My gut reaction to this is that it is BS. (the bokeh).

A few months ago I attended a local B&W digital meeting and showed some
prints.  Without mentioning what camera was used, Antonis picked out some of
my  photos  and said they weren't taken with an SLR. He was right on each
one. They were taken with a Kodak Retina IIIc.

About the Fuji lenses--they don't look so bad to me, but I get the point.


-Bruce

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