[pure-silver] Re: unsharp lens
- From: "Dana H. Myers" <dana.myers@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 14:27:20 -0700
afterswift@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Are we sure we want sharp lenses, particularly for portraiture. Stieglitz
> went to
> a lot of trouble to defocus portraits of his wife. He almost indulged in a
> form of
> romantic pictorialism. I don't recall whether he made those changes in the
> darkroom
> or during exposure.
I've had at least 3 portrait photographers tell me the same basic
story in the last 20 years. Basically, it goes like "after I got
pretty busy shooting portraits and started making real money, the
first thing I did was upgrade my lens(es) and then my customers
started hating the prints".
At very large degrees of enlargement, I can see some softness in
the lens on my GA645. At print sizes below 11x14, it looks sharp,
so I can hardly complain. Sometimes I think this is ideal for a camera
that was almost certainly aimed squarely at wedding shooters when it
was made.
Dana
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