[rollei_list] Re: Quiet, Please! - LPM Image Resolution

  • From: Thor Legvold <tlegvold@xxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 01:12:33 +0200

Hi Mark,

while I will without hesitation defer to you experience, my background as an artist and someone who appreciates great photography would venture me to guess that as far as most pro/major label gear manufactured since the first world war goes, it's all pretty decent quality (as far as saturation, colour, sharpness, etc). I.e. whether a Leica or Nikon or Canon or Rollei or Minolta or Fuji or Pentax or Conax/Zeiss, which image will be 'the best' as far as those issues go is mostly angels on the head of a pin. There may be subtle differences, yes, but the composition and lighting play a much (MUCH) larger role than a difference of 10LPM resolving power. Or our ever recurring Schneider vs Zeiss argument (I own, and use both. Is there a difference? Yes, there is. Does it get in the way of me creating powerful images - or trying to? Not in the least. It's all part of knowing your gear and getting the best from it).

I think as well that many shots we today regard as classics or benchmarks for the genre, are not due to how sharp or saturated they are, but rather due to the subject, framing, composition, lighting, etc. I.e. any reasonably capable equipment should get you there. Maybe not a disposable camera, but not many pros use those :-). Which jumps out the best is not neccesarily a factor of sharpness, or contrast, or colour, etc.

But you're the pro, you know best. I try to get stuff at a level where if the results are horrible, it's not the gear's fault ;-)

Cheers,
Thor





On 3. okt.. 2009, at 00.25, Mark Rabiner wrote:

I think it's really funny that you guys spend so much time arguing
(yes, arguing) about which is "best".

Since when did the sharpest, most colour saturated picture equate with
"best?"

Since when did LPM resolution equate with "best"?

Boys and their toys, always got to argue over who's got the biggest
baddest equipment. :-)

How can you quantify "art", an essentially subjective endeavor? (Look
at Sanders images. Look at Daniels images. See what I mean?)

Use what you like. It's the result that counts, how you get there is
your own business. There is no best, only what works well for you.
That might not be (indeed, is most certainly not) what works well for
me. Live and let live.

Have a good weekend,
Thor





Plenty of times.
Plenty of times when you're choosing between two images the one you go with
is the one which is the most clear.  Clarity. There are times when
spontaneity wins out. And you don't even care if you've really got your focus. But in just as many probably more times what makes a shot a winner of the others is the shot which is the most clear. The shot in which the
subject jumps out the best.
Clarity normally involves such trifles as resolution, sharpness, acutance,
Saturation.
So you try to pick out a lens which gives you the best results. You try to
pick out the best lens.
That's right!
The tools you use to do a job counts.


Mark William Rabiner



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