Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- 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