T3D Re: TECH-3D digest 511

[egoldste@xxxxxx (Eric Goldstein)]

Dave K sez:

>However, great
>equipment can improve any image!
>
>Pretty bold statement, but think about it:


Dave:

Don't believe it! It ain't so! Here's a couple of many examples:

Some of the finest portraiture ever done was shot with technically
"inferior" lenses; that is, lenses with poor resolution away from the
center, only moderate or poor resolution in the center, relatively flat
contrast, relatively low optical correction (plasticity). They have been
celebrated for decades and I can assure you would NOT be improved if they
were shot today with modern materials!

I have shot a few stereo pairs with my Holga (a 13 buck toy 120 camera)
which I am often complimented on. The dream-like quality of the images
would be impossible to duplicate with "great" equipment!

Technically "superior" Japanese lenses often produce artistically sterile,
unromantic and unevocative images which are artistically inferior! In
photography, it is impossible to seperate the technical from the artistic;
they are inextricably intertwined...


Eric G.




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