Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: deception
From: "Bill Larsen" <ohlen@lightspeed.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 23:46:33 -0800

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From: Afterswift@aol.com <Afterswift@aol.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us =
<leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: deception

|- my new M6 won't hardly be broken in by then, and none of my kids know
|how to use it - and worse, they don't care! --Dick Hemingway
|-----------------------------------------------------------
|Dick,
|
|Maybe it's best that your kids don't care. But other kids will care. =
Find
|those kids.
|Film photography and Leica M's don't go out of style. Neither does =
breathing.
|Basics remain constant in the face of technological effects and the
|vicissitudes of temporal change. What remains useful is what we have. =
You got
|an M6.
|
|Bob R


Bob, nice answer.  One of the commonalties that I noted from the capsule =
biographies during the October-November roll call was that most of the =
folks on this list began photography in their youth (teens).  I know =
that I had mentors giving advice (there were not school subjects dealing =
with photography).  I have finally succeeded in getting my 15-year-old =
interested in shooting with a Minolta SRT...beginning to be able to talk =
about depth of field...parallax...the relationship between shutter speed =
and lens opening.  This is not that easy because current point and shoot =
cameras blind you to relationships.

Regards, Bill Larsen
mailto:ohlen@lightspeed.net