[rollei_list] Re: silliness
- From: Jerry Friedman <tinycameraco@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:44:19 -0700 (PDT)
......anyway, Peter, what I forgot to ask you was this: You wrote that you like
old xenars........HEY! What are you a smart guy or soemthing? What's wrong
with Tessars????? Everybody knows that Tessars are better than
Xenars........:>)
Jerry F.
--- Jerry Friedman <tinycameraco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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