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Re: [OM] Lens Quality Merely a Constraint

Subject: Re: [OM] Lens Quality Merely a Constraint
From: "Peter A. Klein" <pklein@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:14:34 -0700
Kelton wrote:

>Good point! We all know that objectivity is a chimera, anyway. Lens 
>quality doesn't really matter, it's just an oppressive, patriarchal 
>constraint to creativity. In this vein, I'd like to help out. To balance 
>out the various lens tests and other attempts at hegemonic empiricism 
>that have been cluttering this list, over the coming months I'm going to 
>be evaluating each fixed Zuiko lens with a poem, and each zoom with an 
>interpretive dance.

Zuiko, Zuiko burning bright,
Long exposures in the night
Could mere mortal hand or eye
Frame thy wondrous symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire seen through thine eyes?
On what wings flies thine allure
Thy multicoat, thine arpeture?

(Apologies to William Blake)


--- Peter
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