[LRflex] Re: New Lens
- From: "Aram Langhans" <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:28:45 -0800
Dang. I wasted $24.
Aram
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From: "Richard Ward" <ilovaussiesheps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 10:14 AM
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [LRflex] Re: New Lens
> Aram,
> I think your shots are most like the results cheap kodak instamatics gave
> in millions of snapshots across the sixties and seventies. The aesthetic
> is a distinct departure from the digital photography era's ubiquitos
> obsession with pixel peeping optical perfection which intrinsically means
> your father's opinion is correct. All Holga shots are fuzzy and mostly out
> of focus.
> My Take on the Holga family of flawed optical lens options is that, much
> like using precise optics such as Leica Glass, what matters is making
> images worth looking at, worth sharing, worthy of your effort to make it.
>
> BTW Pinhole pjotography in the digital age is quite fun, but it
> mercilessly points out any and all dust on one's sensor. Period. Further
> if one has a ccd based sensor they seem to suck dust in like crazy via
> sensor building a static electricity field during long exposures. My
> pinhole is even closed off to dust sucking from outside the camera,
> another know issue, and my M8's visible dust problems simply exploded just
> by sucking up the dust in the imaging box.
>
> Richard in Mighigan
>
> _____________________________________
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> On Feb 27, 2012, at 12:53 PM, "Aram Langhans" <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Here are some shots from my new lens. Not as sharp as a Leica, or even a
>> Nikon, but I thought interesting enough to give it a try. And the price
>> is right.
>> I am talking about a Holga lens I got for my Nikon. I like the look. My
>> father-in-law thinks they are just out of focus photos. What do you
>> think?
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ho/holga-9722-Edit.jpg.html
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ho/holga-9714.jpg.html
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ho/holga-9717.jpg.html
>>
>> To be fair, color of the first one.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/ho/holga-9722.jpg.html
>>
>> I had always wanted to get a Holga camera when I was teaching, but never
>> did. I have the pinhole on order, too. Actually, that is what I
>> originally ordered, but they sent me the lens by mistake.
>>
>> Comments and Criticism wanted. And yes, you can view large for the full
>> effect.
>>
>> Aram
>>
>>
>>
>> Aram Langhans
>> Semi-Retired (retarded?) Science Teacher
>> & Unemployed photographer
>>
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