Re: BMW drivers

[Clive Warren <Clive.Warren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 1:23 pm +1000 3/6/00, Ben Kreunen wrote:

>>
>>Some of my favorite photos are the KM slides my grandpa took with his
>>trusty Argus C3 and my dad took with his incredible Ansco Memar. It
>>amazes me how a wonderful film can produce wonderful results with a
>>so-so camera, and have results to prove it 50-60 yrs. later.
>
>Actually it amazes me how people spend so much money on the mass produced
>crap that is produced today.  Many older "so so" cameras actually had
>reasonably good optics when compared to some of the small crappy lenses in
>todays compact cameras.  I'm not that old, but I can still believe that in
>many cases they don't make 'em like they used to. You can have all of your
>electronic wizardry to make your decisions for you but it is still the lens
>that captures the image.
snip

Ditto. The oldest lens taken on my recent USA trip was made in 1947, the
youngest was made in the late eighties. One camera was made in the 50's the
other in the 60's.

Looking at the trannies made with the oldest and youngest lenses using a 7x
loupe (same time and place) I cannot see any difference.  These lenses were
fairly inexpensive but selected for their optical performance :-)

At the end of the day it is the resulting photograph which really counts -
any half-decent camera with a good lens will do the trick as Ben suggests.
What really counts is the vision of the photographer and with infrared some
idea of how the final photo will look when printed, mounted and framed.


All the best,

             Clive   http://www.cocam.co.uk
                     Photographic Services, Filters and Equipment, Infrared FAQ


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