Street Photography for the Purist

I’ll laugh my way down the street making photos the way I remember seeing them. When you’re at 1 second shooting 800 ISO at f/4.0.
Perhaps not laughing as I’d be drawing attention to myself.
My “go to” lens is that of the thirty-five millimetre Summilux ASPH. Having the capability to make a photo at one-point-four is very much worth
the extra money over only being able to shoot at two-oh.
The two-oh Summicron ASPH is an amazing lens. In fact, some experienced Leica shooters – not fondlers, mind you, as I don’t listen to these
people – claim that the ‘cron has better bokeh than the ‘lux. I’m not into splitting hairs when it comes to this aspect of my lens as I believe in content
over quality of arcane photographic resolving details.
The fondlers can fight over that whilst looking at their photos of brick walls.
The fondlers hero is a guy who writes articles about resolution and shit I don’t begin to understand. These guys worship this fondler-of-all-fondlers.
I could perhaps take his views more seriously if he didn’t, in fact, post his own photographs. I think that the award for making hot Dutch girls look
like shit should be awarded to this guy.
Why?
He always beats up on my favourite lens. The Noctilux.
Why?
I dunno. Perhaps it doesn’t resolve the grout lines of a brick wall that well at f-one-oh.
Some say that it’s a specialty lens. Perhaps. I just know that I can make photographs at night with 100 ISO film and ISO 25 photographs in bright
daylight at the full aperture of one-point-oh.
Is it sharp? I think it’s sharp enough. I prefer content over sharpness.
Sharpness is cool but it’s overrated.
Just like MTF charts. Wanna know what MTF charts are? Google the fucker.
They don’t mean shit to me.
The ability to make a photo whenever and wherever possible is all that I care about.