dritz Posted September 17, 2007 Share #1 Posted September 17, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) A Critic at Large: Candid Camera: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker Haven't read yet read it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 17, 2007 Posted September 17, 2007 Hi dritz, Take a look here New Yorker article on the "Cult of Leica". I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
christer Posted September 17, 2007 Share #2 Posted September 17, 2007 thanks for the link. have read it. a must-read. but noctilux is referred to as "the widest lens on the market". probably a misprint. should have been "wildest lens". chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyp Posted September 17, 2007 Share #3 Posted September 17, 2007 Maybe he meant ''widest aperture' Interesting write-up, fun to read Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted September 17, 2007 Share #4 Posted September 17, 2007 Pleasant to read, and, differently from similar articles in not-specialized magazines, I seem not to find gross mistakes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spylaw4 Posted September 17, 2007 Share #5 Posted September 17, 2007 Some factual inaccuracies, but I suppose they are excusable in an article written for essentially non-photographers. Nevertheless a good read from someone who seems to understand what a Leica is all about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k_g_wolf ✝ Posted September 17, 2007 Share #6 Posted September 17, 2007 Anthony Lane, the author, did a pretty good, considering that he might have to write an article on mechanical watches, Harley Davidsons or submarines, at the next occasion his newspaper wants something of him. Pretty good sources he found, IMO. Esp. the hint - NEVER heard that before - that O. B. put a filmstrip between his stretched out hands to arrive at the 36/ 40 frames/ length of a standard 35mm- film is just gorgeous ... Best Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gberger Posted September 17, 2007 Share #7 Posted September 17, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Tony Lane does quite a bit of research on each of his articles; however, when he submits his script, it falls into the hands of the editorial / rewrite denizens with the green eyeshades. What comes into print is not necessarily what he wrote. IMO, given the constraints, it's an excellent article, and a responsible introduction to the Leica for the non-believers <g>. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leitz_not_leica Posted September 17, 2007 Share #8 Posted September 17, 2007 The Noct' is the "fastest" lens (the Canon 0.95, which I've had is only marked for bragging rights and not really meaningful. BTW, it's not currently being produced. It is not the widest or the widest aperture (think 300/2.8 for example). Good read, BTW. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted September 18, 2007 Share #9 Posted September 18, 2007 Even forgetting about the subject (the subject is why I read it), the writing is lovely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcoombs Posted September 18, 2007 Share #10 Posted September 18, 2007 Yes, even content aside, the guy writes very well. Very fluid with detail, yet general enough for the uninitiated. This is consistant with articles appearing in the New Yorker. It was a nice read. Doug Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrewer Posted September 18, 2007 Share #11 Posted September 18, 2007 Great article by Anthony Lane. I felt like he successfully captured some of my own enthrallment with my camera. Ironic that Steve Lee cited a "Morgan vs. Benz wagon" as that is the stable (minus one) of a certain longtime member of the Forum; as though the two had spoken of the analogy. Hmmmmm..... Thanks. Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted September 18, 2007 Share #12 Posted September 18, 2007 A joy to read: thanks for the link. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruiespanhol Posted September 19, 2007 Share #13 Posted September 19, 2007 A Critic at Large: Candid Camera: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker Haven't read yet read it. Very good article!! Thanks Dritz for the link Best, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Albertson Posted September 19, 2007 Share #14 Posted September 19, 2007 It's not a cult, it's a religion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted September 20, 2007 Share #15 Posted September 20, 2007 “One is driving a Morgan four-by-four down a country lane,......" No such thing! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
christer Posted September 20, 2007 Share #16 Posted September 20, 2007 well, that depends on how you pronounce it. a morgan+4 it is not, but a morgan 4/4 it could be. or do you call the latter a "morgan four-slash-four" or "four-divided-by-four"? chris the following is from a morgan web-site: So where does the Morgan 4/4 name come from? The Morgan 4/4 is the direct descendant of the first four-wheeled car built by Morgan in 1936. The name is derived from ‘four wheels, four cylinders’ and differentiated the Morgan 4/4 from earlier models that were all 3 wheelers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 20, 2007 Share #17 Posted September 20, 2007 "Four by four" means a four-wheel drive. At least it does in this country. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhsimmonds Posted September 20, 2007 Share #18 Posted September 20, 2007 "Four by four" means a four-wheel drive. At least it does in this country. Ah the innocence of youth! I wonder if you have ever driven a Morgan 4/4 or even a Morgan Aero Sports (3/2 that is three wheels and 2 cylinders and my steed for learning to drive!). Yes Alan, I know to whom you refer. Whatever has happened to William these days? I haven't seen a posting from him for ages, I hope his Landrover sales are going well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tummydoc Posted September 20, 2007 Share #19 Posted September 20, 2007 "Fifty miles north of Frankfurt lies the small German town of Solms. Aha, my first two defective M8s must have been assembled at the other Leica factory in the other Solms "With a Leica, all you hear is the shutter, which is the quietest on the market. The result—and this may be the most seductive reason for the Leica cult—is that a photograph sounds like a kiss."...Now, with an M8 in my possession, the shame gave way to a thrill. At one point, I stood outside a bookstore and, in a bid to test the exposure, focussed on a pair of browsers standing within, under an “Antiquarian” sign at the end of a long shelf. Suddenly, a pale blur entered the frame lines. I panicked, and pressed the shutter: kiss." The M8?? Perhaps a kiss from R2D2 "(“If the good Lord had wanted us to take photographs with a 6 by 6, he would have put eyes in our belly,” a scornful Cartier-Bresson said.)" Someone knowledgeable of Cartier-Bresson's insecure anti-social personality for which he compensated with unfathomable arrogance would recognise that quote as not a commentary on photographic technique, but as what it truly was: a dig at his contemporary Robert Doisneau, whom he jealously despised. "Ralph Gibson once went to a meeting of the Leica Historical Society of America and, he claims, listened to a retired Marine Corps general give a scholarly paper on certain discrepancies in the serial numbers of Leica lens caps. “Leicaweenies,” Gibson calls such addicts" I'll wager Gibson didn't have the guts to call the late Roy Moss (whom he refers to) a 'weenie' to his face Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted September 20, 2007 Share #20 Posted September 20, 2007 Ah the innocence of youth! I wonder if you have ever driven a Morgan 4/4 or even a Morgan Aero Sports (3/2 that is three wheels and 2 cylinders and my steed for learning to drive!). I wouldn't be seen dead in a Morgan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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