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Re: [OM] Lens test pink f1.4s versus green 1.4s

Subject: Re: [OM] Lens test pink f1.4s versus green 1.4s
From: Garry Lewis <glewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:18:23 -0500
>That depends on how you define "better." IMHO, the reason for 
>preferring MC is flare control. The SC lenses may have some endearing 
>qualities, but shooting into the sun does not bring them out... :-)

Funny how, in the old SC days, flare was often used as a creative element. Now 
,in these MC days, it's a pox, a pimple, a festered sore on the nose of 
photography. How times or should I say
coatings have changed our sensibilities.:-) After all coatings are just the 
beginning to flare abatement. There's lenshood, umbrellas, shade trees, or 
other peoples
shadows. An what's the good of MC if you stick a bad filter or a thumb print up 
front. FLARE- if you can't LOOSE it-USE it.

>To paraphrase Garth, it's easier to reduce contrast and sharpness 
>after the fact than to add it, regardless of whether your darkroom 
>uses chemistry or pixels...

True up to the point of just how do you add FLARE in the darkroom- chemically 
or digitially?

                yours slip-sliding away on the box,

                                Garry D. Lewis

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