> On Sep 7, 2019, at 3:24 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On the other hand, you might want to not worry overmuch about the theory of > things. Knarf had an interesting quote in his signature about sharpness. > > Nine years ago I went to burning man for my 50th birthday. I shot about > eight rolls of film in my Argus and about ten times as many frames with my > DSLRs. The photos taken with the DSLRs were significantly sharper, and > cleaner in pretty much every measurable way than the photos with taken with > the Argus, but one thing I realized was that artistically they weren’t any > better. > > There are times when a lack of sharpness can negatively impact a photo, > however if that is because the print is too big, then just display the photo > someplace that people can’t leave nose prints on it from looking at it that > closely.
A couple of my favorite photos, e.g., a shot into Grand Canyon on a rainy day with lots of foggy haze in the canyons; a blurry shot from behind of a five year old granddaughter joining the adult line dance at her aunt’s wedding, are distinctly fuzzy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] “Man has been a murderer forever.” - Peter Matthiessen. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
