cometsoft Posted September 17, 2007 Share #1 Posted September 17, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Check this article out! http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_lane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 Hi cometsoft, Take a look here Leica article in the New Yorker. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
jaapv Posted September 17, 2007 Share #2 Posted September 17, 2007 Interesting to note that the Noctilux is the widest lens on the market..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted September 17, 2007 Share #3 Posted September 17, 2007 ..quoted in another thread ... I think Summicron R 180 is "wider" ... but the article is funny and contains no stupidities about Leica... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photoskeptic Posted September 17, 2007 Share #4 Posted September 17, 2007 A nicely done summation of Leica. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Campbell Posted September 17, 2007 Share #5 Posted September 17, 2007 I think that Anthony Lane nailed it. Nice article. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted September 17, 2007 Share #6 Posted September 17, 2007 All those years of subscribing to the New Yorker finally paid off! Not sure if I want to point the article out to the bride, tho. However, she did say recently that the things I need are expensive. A nicely done article without abuse and with a good understanding of what the camera's about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samir Jahjah Posted September 17, 2007 Share #7 Posted September 17, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Check this article out! A Critic at Large: Candid Camera: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker Thanks for pointing us the article. A nice read... How to interpret the smile and silence of Steven Lee when asked about a M9, an upgraded M8, with all the kinks ironed out ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cometsoft Posted September 17, 2007 Author Share #8 Posted September 17, 2007 I like: "Rather, it has to do with the old, bewildering Leica trick: the illusion, fostered by a mere machine, that the world out there is asking to be looked at—to be caught and consumed while it is fresh, like a trout." I find I enjoy photographing with the Leica in an almost sensual way (as compared to a DSLR). The negative impact of the article (considering the New Yorker demographic) will probably make the lenses even harder to get (at least I've got all I need). I remember when surfing became very popular again in the late 80s (I believe) due to some TV shows. The swarms overwhelmed and ruined a lot of the breaks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnbuckley Posted September 17, 2007 Share #9 Posted September 17, 2007 I hate that this was in the New Yorker's Style issue... But I love the line that news of the M8 was like hearing that Dylan had gone electric. That's great! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Flatline Posted September 17, 2007 Share #10 Posted September 17, 2007 All those years of subscribing to the New Yorker finally paid off! LOL, yeah, me too. That was a fun read. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicar7 Posted September 17, 2007 Share #11 Posted September 17, 2007 Probably the best Leica article I've seen anywhere, except for an occassional, and much shorter testemonial from a user. Leica ought to send this out as a newsletter, correcting the adjective describing the Noctilux. The guy has a way with words. This will be difficult to surpass any time soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankg Posted September 17, 2007 Share #12 Posted September 17, 2007 He very effectively covers the history, photographers, photographs and mythology that make the Leica Kool-Aid such an irresistible concoction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted September 17, 2007 Share #13 Posted September 17, 2007 ..quoted in another thread ... I think Summicron R 180 is "wider" ... but the article is funny and contains no stupidities about Leica... I thought he meant "widest" as in "widest aperture", not focal length. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent10D Posted September 17, 2007 Share #14 Posted September 17, 2007 An excellent article, especially from someone who is not already an M-addict. I'll bet it won't be long before he can't resist and "upgrades" from his D-lux 3. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougdarter Posted September 17, 2007 Share #15 Posted September 17, 2007 A good piece of writing - interesting, informative, and no superlatives. He tells it as it is - very refreshing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
newyorkone Posted September 18, 2007 Share #16 Posted September 18, 2007 Great find...thanks for the link. Superbly written. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roubaix Posted September 18, 2007 Share #17 Posted September 18, 2007 Isn't that a coincidence. There was also an article in the Saturday Financial times (sorry couldn't find a link to post) in the "How to spend it" section entiteld Technopolis on the Lecia M8. It begins something like, "Can we agree that that when I repeated say the M8 is beautiful I really mean it? The M8 is staggeringly beautiful... it is hard to get across the physical excellence of the M8...it is probably the worlds best digital camera that just happens to look so good around your neck that people of taste stare...." and so it goes. Short, but accurate. More a short couplet than the New Yiorker sonnet. None the less, duling fitting our machine of choice. Chapeau, Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted September 18, 2007 Share #18 Posted September 18, 2007 What a wonderful article! A remarkably telling story regarding the ethos of Leica. Anthony Lane, the author of this piece, surely deserves that M8. He did with words what Cartier-Bresson did with his shutter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrc Posted September 18, 2007 Share #19 Posted September 18, 2007 What a wonderful article! A remarkably telling story regarding the ethos of Leica. Anthony Lane, the author of this piece, surely deserves that M8. He did with words what Cartier-Bresson did with his shutter. For the effect it's going to have on Leica sales, Leica should send him a complimentary copy, along with a nice 50 summilux. The use of the word "widest" with the Noctilux struck me as a typical writer's solution in the struggle to find a word that will be understood by the general public. To say "fastest," which most photographers would use (and Lane too, judging from the number of cameras he's had) would confuse a lot of people. How can a still-camera lens be fast? Given the fact that he talks about photography by candlelight, he obviously understands functional advantage of the Nocti. Unfortunately, the "widest" gets confused with "wide angle." Probably should have gone with "fastest." He is a good writer -- I look for his stuff when I'm paging through a New Yorker. (For Europeans who may not be familiar with it, the New Yorker is probably the premier, and one of the oldest, US magazines that focuses on art and cultural commentary.) JC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtZ Posted September 18, 2007 Share #20 Posted September 18, 2007 It's funny to see that this article makes some people here to fell more snobish and elitists... but doesn't make them better photographers! Bla, bla, bla... And here we go for another thread to the glory of Leica... even when the M8 is less than perfect! Never mind... . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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