Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ted, >that is a great shame for our reputation! Hell they aren't photographers, >they >are manipulators of a picture taking all auto everything box that captures = an >image on light sensitive material. > they are all photographers - don't be so arrogant to believe that only manual focus prevents the real photographer (but thanxs - I never owned a autofocus). They are getting more money for the pictures then a lot of "real" ones - so they are realy professionell. >Now it appears 7 guys have been arrested and the police have confiscated th= e >film and will have it processed to see just what they were shooting and how >close they were working alongside the car. > If you drive a 3 tons car with 150km/h through a city - you should think about the possibility beeing killed in that situation... >Not only that, but the bastards started to shoot them in the car after the >crash >without even trying to help, even though they were beyond help. >So now at the moment, 3 human beings dead, another probably on life >support, and >one of these guys has affered the pictures for 1 million dollars. That is o= f >course if he gets them back from the French police. And the French police >can be >the most mean assed mothers you can deal with if they get their dander up. > Now you are doing exactly what pushed the paparazzi behind her - you read newspapers, watch tv and you like and believe what you see. Or did you talk to one of the photographers or a police man? Were did you get your facts from? I don't like this kind of work too and I hate people who don't help with 1st aid - but you have to see, that the news about the accident is exactly the same paparazzi style. >And the fact that two very high profile folks were killed on French soil >in the >capital city of Paris, the cops and officials are going to come down with >a big >heavy sledge hammer I'm sure. It certainly will be an interesting situation= to >follow! > It's allways the same: people love easy black & white readings of situations. Diana used the press as the press used her... Cheers, Detlef Detlef Beyer * Volksgartenstr. 34 * 50677 Cologne * Germany phone: 49.221.93 18 700 * fax: 49.221.32 42 45 ( ask for my PGP-Key if needed ) (ask for CoolTalk or QuickTime Conferencing Video) URLs: http://www.hermes.de/priv/detpriv/detbey.html http://www.hermes.de/KITE/ http://www.hermes.de/chile/ ### "Wir sind nichts. Was wir suchen, ist alles." (Friedrich H=F6lderlin) ###