Jorgen Udvang
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I look upon my gear as a luxury buffet dinner. Every day before I leave my home, I ask myself: What do I want to shoot with today? Choice is great
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I think you've already answered your own question.Overall however I often wonder if these minor differences in "character" of certain lenses are not really overrated. If it would be more important to just focus on the subject/photography thing and less on the gear.
Don't expect answers to such questions on a Leica forum?But how can one get rid of this "gear" lust?
If you conduct a controlled blind test using prints (of 'reasonable' size) of multiple subjects by multiple photographers, under random lighting conditions, nobody will be able to tell, beyond luck, the camera or the lens. There are far too many variables in the entire chain from camera to print. [And if one doesn't print, and merely looks at screen shots, buying expensive gear is already a waste of time and money.]Just yesterday I took some images with different 50mm Leica lenses, and I really wonder who could tell which image is from which lenses.
JeffIf you conduct a controlled blind test using prints (of 'reasonable' size) of multiple subjects by multiple photographers, under random lighting conditions, nobody will be able to tell, beyond luck, the camera or the lens. There are far too many variables in the entire chain from camera to print. [And if one doesn't print, and merely looks at screen shots, buying expensive gear is already a waste of time and money.]
The only one you need to satisfy is yourself.
Jeff
Nice theory, but wrong. Jono's informal experiment here, which was already directed to you, shows what really happens when real life intervenes and nothing is known in advance. And, as he said, he didn't even begin to mix in work from different photographers, of different subjects in different lighting conditions, with different lenses, etc, etc.But if you mix images from a Leica and say a Nikon ..you can for sure see the differences if they are viewed together .
Ok we are going back to the experiment that was never shown to us as the standard of proof? I let that one go then but not this one .Nice theory, but wrong. Jono's informal experiment here, which was already directed to you, shows what really happens when real life intervenes and nothing is known in advance. And, as he said, he didn't even begin to mix in work from different photographers, of different subjects in different lighting conditions, with different lenses, etc, etc.
Jeff
Don't need Jono's test.Ok we are going back to the experiment that was never shown to us as the standard of proof? I let that one go then but not this one .
I've read comments regarding the MM, remarking on roughly this same file characteristic, i.e., robust and infinitely malleable files, as one of its key virtues.(snip)...just give me a data rich flat file and I'll make my own aesthetic.