"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept"

[Yokosuka Mike]

Sony A7II, Voigtländer 28mm f2 Ultron VM lens
Yokosuka, Japan - June 2020

All the best,
Mike

 

[peterm1]

Glimpses of Life 2 by Life in Shadows, on Flickr

 

[Greg Maslak]

"Summertime" - my poor effort at tracking with a Fuji XE-2s, 27 f.2.8

 

[markjwyatt]

Time by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr

Since I got the idea to do this, I cannot stop thinking about Pink Floyd's Time

"Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way...
...Home
Home again
I like to be here
When I can..."

 

[Greg Maslak]

An old blurry one, taken years ago near Athens. Nikkormat Ft2, Nikkor 43-86 f3.5 Zoom

 

[krusander8M]

Zorki, Jupiter-8, HP5 Plus, LC29



Moscow, 2020 by Grigorii Krusanov, on Flickr

 

[peterm1]

Nikon 70-200 f2.8...

Very nicely executed.

 

[peterm1]

I cannot claim that this image is sharp - though the edge of his glasses are. (If it were AF I would blame that. Sadly I cannot). And to be fair, I suppose it is not terribly out of focus either. But I like how it looks.

Bookshop Owner by Life in Shadows, on Flickr

 

[karlin]

DSC00765 by ophir segal, on Flickr

 

[Musashi1205]

Ohne Titel by C R, auf Flickr

 

[Bill Blackwell]

Leica MP
35mm Asph Summicron

 

[Doug]

Breakfast in Reedley California, January 2020

Leica M-D 262, 2.0/35mm Biogon ZM

 

[oldwino]

Vineyard Barn.
Nikon Z6 / Leitz Summar 50

Vineyard Barn. by Henry Beckmeyer, on Flickr

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Fujifilm GFX 50R, Fujinon GF 45mm f2.8 R WR lens
Acros film simulation
Yokohama, Japan - August 2020

All the best,
Mike

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Fujifilm X-Pro3, Fujinon XF 23mm f2 R WR lens
Astia film simulation
Yokohama, Japan - August 2020

All the best,
Mike

 

[peterm1]

An old photo I scanned today.

Background: It was a slide originally (most likely Fuji Velvia but I was working from a large format print of it) shot 20 meters below the ocean off Madang New Guinea on the wreck of a WW2 American B25 bomber shot down on a bombing mission. Some of the crew survived the crash and some of them escaped. I think some were captured and executed. The Captain of the bomber survived and eventually came back as an old man to dive on his old aircraft - a few years before I was there in I think about 1990 or a little before. I somehow found that very moving.

Shot with a Nikonos 5 and standard 35mm f2.8 lens. Not much detail due to the particles in the water but then it kind of proves the point made in the title of this thread.

EDIT: I just found a dive site link to the wreck info for those who might be interested in knowing more.

https://www.diveplanit.com/dive-site/b25-bomber/

 

[kmallick]

 

[pm1220]

Kodak 5222, Summicron 35mm v1

 

[cboy]

Does anyone use the promist filter?

 

[Doug]

My mother, 14 May 2006. Early dinner at The Boat Shed restaurant, Bremerton WA, her favorite.
Some lenses are designed with variable soft-focus as a feature. Using the Pentax 120mm Soft for portraiture as intended, with f/5.6 chosen for some softness, as it loses its soft effect beyond about f/8.

Pentax 6x7, 3.5/120mm Pentax-67 Soft