Re: sharpness

I agree with Michel. All the advertising for conventional photographic
materials makes one think sharpness is the goal. I suppose it can be a
legitimate goal for some purposes but not necessarily for expressive
photography. I've spent a lot of time experimenting with ways to make
modern materials less sharp. And I have been delighted with the quality
of 35mm pinhole photographs for years--either with homemade cameras,
bodycaps or one of Dominique Stroobant's lens-less leica lenses. A
couple of those images are at the address below. Both enlarge to make
fine 8x10 prints. "Take pictures and enjoy."

Howard Wells
http://home.earthlink.net/~sandwell/work.html

Michel Dusariez wrote:
>
> About pinhole sharpness.
>
> An other field in photography is to consider the artistic results first,
> put your magnifiers in your pocket and
> stop to search indefinitelly the performance,
> take pictures and enjoy.
>
> In the fields of sharpness nothing is never perfect,
> I know photographers who devote their entire life in search of performance,
> and never do real photography .
>
> Only tests, and test again !
>
> Winners are only photography materials suppliers.
>
> Take your camera and take pictures.
>
> Michel DUSARIEZ
>
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Received on Tue Aug 21 09:59:11 2001