原出处：theonlinephotographer  作者：L. T.  Gray

我想我们的朋友劳埃德是踩上了，噗哧带响地正正踩上了一泡新屎。他写了一篇关于神器M9的，不完全吹塌天的评论。

麦克多年前在LUG上发过一篇“徕卡规则”，我现在找不到了。但还记得一条基本原则：你不可批评徕卡在产产品。只有当换代新产品取代了它们之后，你方可直言旧型号的缺点。而在这之前，每种徕卡在产产品不用说都是不可改进的，普世真理。

举个例子：麦克写过一片M8优缺点评价，现在看来理智而均衡，但在当时并非如此。因为那时M8还在产。大错特错。 徕卡迷们明确表明麦克是臭狗屎。他们做得对。

麦克写过对35mm 七枚的评论，大多是流光溢彩的赞美。他说到该镜在薄乳剂胶片如Delta 100上会产生过度暗角。活该他被徕卡资深们架上了烤肉炉。后来35 非球面推出，徕卡提到新款大大改进了暗角。你看你看，只有到了这时候，老款才出现暗角。而在此之前那是从来没有的事。

劳埃得，你的评论大概算得上中肯。终有一天，等到M10 出世吧。而在这之前，你对时机的把握差劲。你做下了大坏事。面壁思过去，直到你学会遵守规则。

I'm afraid our friend Lloyd Chambers has stepped in it. Stepped square in fresh poop with a great big squishing sound. He's written a commentary about the Leica M9 that's not totally over the moon about that august device .

I can't find the post Mike wrote on the Leica User Group (LUG) many years ago now called "The Leica Rules" or something like that, but I do remember one of the cardinal rules, which is that you're not allowed to criticize current Leica products. Only once they've been replaced can you talk frankly about the flaws of the earlier versions. Until it is replaced by Leica, every current Leica product is by definition unimproveable. That's a fact of life—a Universal Truth. Axiomatic.

For instance, if you'll remember, Mike wrote a review of the Leica M8 (in separate "Pro" and "Con" sections) that now looks quite sane and balanced. But it wasn't at the time, because, when he wrote it, the M8 was still a current product. Big mistake. Leica fans let him know in no uncertain terms what an irredeemable shit he is. And they were right to do so.

He should have learned his lesson long ago, when he wrote a review of the 35mm Summicron (4th version, now called the "Pre-ASPH") that was only mostly glowing. He said the lens had excessive vignetting with thin-emulsioned B&W films such as 100 Delta. He duly got raked over the coals by aficionados for daring to say such a thing. Later, when Leica introduced the 35mm Summicron ASPH, it mentioned that one of the improvements is that it vignettes much less than its predecessor version. You see, only then did the earlier lens start to vignette; before that, it never did.

Lloyd, your review might look perfectly reasonable...someday. Once the M10 has come out. Until then, though...well, your timing is very poor, and you've done a bad thing. Very bad. Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done until you're ready to play by the rules again.
本帖最后由 虎朋狗友 于 2013-4-23 01:47 编辑

发原文，中文翻译腔太重，看不大懂。

说明一下： 这里说到的劳埃德是diglloyd.com的Iloyd Chambers. 他关于M9的评论只对付费订阅读者开放。我本人没有看过。麦克是theonlinephotographer.com的Mike Johnston, 过去的Photo Techniques 杂志编辑。35mm 7枚“散景王”据考出自此君（我并不同意。他如今也露过口风说那个头衔只限于F5.6或更小）。他逻辑清晰，行文风趣而不油滑，词句干净流畅。最难得之处在于他来自黑白胶片时代的深厚积累，喜欢谈技术与器材但不局限。艺术鉴赏方面也很有见地，是我最喜欢的摄影写手。

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对自己心中的女神，谁也不能玷污，除非有了新的女神。。。。。。。