Ray Sachs
Legend
- Location
- Not too far from Philly
- Name
- you should be able to figure it out...
I've been a Sean Reid subscriber for a few months now. For the most part, I'm glad there are people doing what he does, but reading his reviews is about as much fun as running sandpaper across my eyes. Really really DRY technical stuff. I can't imagine I'll pay for another year when this one is up. Nonetheless, his reviews and analysis are generally quite exhaustive - no stones are left un-turned, and there's good information in there if you want to go find it. But his analysis definitely runs to the technical, only a pixel peeper would care, end of the spectrum and I live at the other end.
So anyway, today I'm fighting my way through the analysis of the X100, X-Pro 1, M9, and the new Leica Monochrome (which I may have mentioned once or twice, I just don't get). And in the midst of the driest technical analysis I could never want to read appears this line, referencing his wife, who I guess is a pro photographer with, he assures us, a good eye for color:
"The key, she tells me, lies in the bananas".
I almost fell out of my chair laughing. I'm hearing Bogart delivering the line as a young and beautiful Lauren Bacall glances knowingly from the background. I'm seeing Groucho Marx working the eyebrows and the cigar. Its just a great line, but to say it didn't fit in a Sean Reid review is like saying the Titanic had a rough night, like saying that aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, the play wan't half BAD......
It actually makes sense in the context of the article, but it was and is SOOOOOO out of place, such a seeming non sequitur, that I just had to crack up.
There, now you don't have to go read the article - I've gotten to the best part for you. Hopefully this short quote is not a copyright violation.
The Leica Monochrome, btw, shows very impressive high ISO performance and a really REALLY nice natural noise pattern at high ISO. The X-Pro seemed the most impressive of these cameras overall, but in a B&W conversion at all but one or two ISO's (where the X-Pro and the MM came down to a matter of preference), the MM was really nice - best of the bunch. By enough to justify its price tag and to give up the color channel manipulation working with a color file will give you in doing a conversion??? Absolutely not, at least to my way of looking at things. I still don't get this camera. BUT, it is very impressive in terms of high ISO noise, both the relative lack of it and the attractiveness of the "grain" that is inevitable when the ISO gets really high.
None of which amounts to a hill of beans, though, once you understand that "the key, she tells me, lies in the bananas".
-Ray
So anyway, today I'm fighting my way through the analysis of the X100, X-Pro 1, M9, and the new Leica Monochrome (which I may have mentioned once or twice, I just don't get). And in the midst of the driest technical analysis I could never want to read appears this line, referencing his wife, who I guess is a pro photographer with, he assures us, a good eye for color:
"The key, she tells me, lies in the bananas".
I almost fell out of my chair laughing. I'm hearing Bogart delivering the line as a young and beautiful Lauren Bacall glances knowingly from the background. I'm seeing Groucho Marx working the eyebrows and the cigar. Its just a great line, but to say it didn't fit in a Sean Reid review is like saying the Titanic had a rough night, like saying that aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, the play wan't half BAD......
It actually makes sense in the context of the article, but it was and is SOOOOOO out of place, such a seeming non sequitur, that I just had to crack up.
There, now you don't have to go read the article - I've gotten to the best part for you. Hopefully this short quote is not a copyright violation.
The Leica Monochrome, btw, shows very impressive high ISO performance and a really REALLY nice natural noise pattern at high ISO. The X-Pro seemed the most impressive of these cameras overall, but in a B&W conversion at all but one or two ISO's (where the X-Pro and the MM came down to a matter of preference), the MM was really nice - best of the bunch. By enough to justify its price tag and to give up the color channel manipulation working with a color file will give you in doing a conversion??? Absolutely not, at least to my way of looking at things. I still don't get this camera. BUT, it is very impressive in terms of high ISO noise, both the relative lack of it and the attractiveness of the "grain" that is inevitable when the ISO gets really high.
None of which amounts to a hill of beans, though, once you understand that "the key, she tells me, lies in the bananas".
-Ray