[rollei_list] Re: silliness
- From: Jerry Friedman <tinycameraco@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:37:00 -0700 (PDT)
Dear Peter:
I have no idea why you should think that this is a silly argument despite the
fact that everything you say is obvious and certainly true. What? Are we to
give up one of our favorite pastimes? What would you have us do? Whinny about
the differences between Leica and Contax or shimmy between Japanese glass and
German glass?? Clearly, THIS is a debate that has the merit of time, even if it
lacks sense. How else might we justify that we spent too much money on a
Xenotar or a Planar if we can not decry the other's obviously foolish purchase
of the other?
Your points are all well taken and well understood by all of us. Understood by
all of us, I say, ......almost as much as we understand...... how much better
Planars are than Xenotars. :>)
Jerry F.
--- Peter J Nebergall <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Planar-Xenotar argument reminds me of the great rivalry between Liszt
> and Chopin. Folks were constantly and noisily debating their merits, and
> a tesrt was resolved. As I remember the story, a black curtain was hung
> between the piano and the audience. First each man played his own
> material, then, out of sight, each man tried to fool the audience into
> thinking the other was playing... In fact, Liszt did fool the audience
> into thinking he was Chopin -- but Chopin could not fool anyone into
> thinking he was Liszt (except in the Cockney sense!)
>
> Now -- can anyone tell the difference between the pictures, just looking
> at the pictures?
> otherwise its close to a "difference that makes no difference..."
>
> Can anyone fool you into thinking its one when it was the other?
>
> I like my old Xenons and Xenars... esp for B&W -- but I don't have a
> planar...
>
> Because, just as "there's only one beautiful child, and every mother has
> it," people will sing the praises of their own lens...
>
> Hey, I even have a soviet-era "zenitar" which appears to be a CZ J
> Pancolar in a macro mount...'
>
> PJ Nebergall
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