[LRflex] Re: New Lens
- From: Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:43:30 -0800
Just picking up on you agreeing with my father-in-law. I ordered it, or
actually the pinhole, because I got thinking, how many photos of Yosemite
Falls can you take? I though this might give a different perspective on
things, not necessarily Yosemite Falls, that I shoot quite often, and see if
they look different and worth seeing, like what you said.
Aram
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Ward
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 10:33 AM
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [LRflex] Re: New Lens
Hi Aram,
not sure I catch your meaning of having 'wasted $24'. Based on my comments?
Based on pinhole lenses and dust? I hope you meant it humorously because I
was not meaning to slight the validity of Holga lenses and cameras as an
option to tell stories.
RW
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On Feb 27, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Aram Langhans wrote:
> 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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>>
>> My Sarcasm Fu Is Strong,
>> Proceed With Caution. :-)
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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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