“Is there a tendency, as shown in the work seen in the magazines, the
exhibitions, and the photographs selected for the present _Annual_, to get
rid of fuzziness and substitute a rational degree of softness and
atmospheric effect?”
“I would say that the reproductions that we see in the magazines do not in
all cases represent lens work but, I fear, bad printing sometimes. There
is often a good definite quality in soft focus lens work that looks very
definite indeed, even more definite than a sharp lens will give.
Fuzziness is bad, but not softness. The soft focus lens seems to be more
popular than ever and it apparently has come to stay.”