On 31 Jan 2012, at 1:35 AM, Moose wrote:
> On 1/30/2012 5:04 AM, Dawid Loubser wrote:
>> ...
>> People should stop obsessing about lens differences, and focus on
>> their composition and light :-)
>
> LOL!
>
> Great advice - and especially so from you. ;-)
>
> Moose
Indeed... As time moves on and I move further and further away from my
digital days, my only metric is what a photograph looks like on a
print. By this metric, the most significant contributor of print image
quality for me these days is film format size, and not lens quality.
Of course certain lenses like the Zuiko 90/2.0 have an indescribably
great rendering on B&W film, but even the lowliest junker of a
standard lens on my Mamiya RB67 produces a print that is so far
superiour as for comparison to be totally meaningless. And then lets
not talk about large format.
My 1:1 *macro* shots on large format, with my throwaway (wort probably
$50, scratched etc) 1950 Schneider-Kreuznach Convertible Symmar 150mm
standard lens, are of superiour technical quality to anything I can
achieve with the OM system. This is an example which i could never
achieve with the OM system, never mind with film pushed to ISO1600.
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/150/a/e/twice_bitten__not_shy_by_philosomatographer-d3hky2o.jpg
I subsequently upgraded to a modern APO-Symmar 150/5.6 - one of the
great Large Format lenses - and the differences between these lenses
are mostly meaningless. I'm glad I kept the old junker, and I use it
often. Because it has a self-timer :-)
Dawid
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|
