Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>At 08:25 PM 1/29/97 -0500, you wrote: >>At 03:53 PM 1/29/97 -0500, Charles Love, man of import, wrote: >> >>>I do hope the USERS means what it says, too--but there is a lot of collector >>>stuff on this list as well. >> >>Y'know, I've been a LUG-nut for pushing two years now -- and I've NEVER >>heard anything of collector interest here. I use ALL my gear on occasion, >>and I suspect everyone else does as well. >> >>Marc >> >> >First, Marc, thanks for the promotion. "Man of import," eh? I'll put this >one in my fan mail file! > >As for my remark about "collectors:" I'd suggest three categories in >talking about them, and us on LUG: (1) Pure Collectors: People who collect >cameras they do not use, though they may fondle them once in a while :-). >(2) User Collectors: People who collect and use old equipment. Such people >do make photographs, and want them to be good, but part of the pleasure for >them is in the using of the old equipment for its own sake. (3) >Photographers: People whose objective is to achieve the best possible image >(whatever that means to them), and who see equipment primarily as a tool to >reach that goal. Of course people can fall in between these a bit, or mix >them up. > > Anyway, by this standard, there are few pure collectors on LUG, I'd expect. >But I would say there are lots of user collectors, and some photographers. >By this standard, too, I'd say I moved from user collector toward >photographer over the years as I tried for higher and higher image quality >(landscapes, architecture, abstracts), though I do like equipment for its >own sake too. (I have sold off all my screwmount and early M and R, and >have been working a lot in medium format lately). > >So: when I referred to "collector stuff on this list," I was really >referring to the material that would be of primary interest to user >collectors--and there is a lot of that here, and a good deal of it would be >interesting to pure collectors as well (e.g. your discussion of the 40 >f2.8's rarity). We all have different ways of approaching our >hobby/vocation/passion! > >Charlie > >Charles E. Love, Jr. >CEL14@CORNELL.EDU I'd have to agree with M.O.I Love. Altho' I'm new to the list, as a photo-teacher and working pro who happens to like good equipment I'd have to say there's very little here about MAKING pictures. Robert