Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Photos on the Web
From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@mail.wm.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:21:38 -0400

Lucien,

I suppose I suffer from the pedant's crochet of feeling the need to provide
an *example* to sustain my point of view.  It's my day job, after all.

C


At 10:10 AM 6/12/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Chandos,
>
>snip
>>Instead--and here I shall piss you all off again--
>>we sputter and moan over red dots, serial numbers, 
>>the virtues of the Noctilux, and whether the RS
>>series is the summa of "leica vindcated".  
>
>Is it necessary to criticize what others like
>to discuss in order to strengthen your point of view ?
>
>Just asking.
>:-)
>
>>In the end, I suppose, the whole point of this is 
>>what do we *see*: collectively, individually . . .
>>No amount of talking about the resolution of an 
>>aspherical lens equals the simple presentation of a 
>>compelling image captured with one . . .   
>
>My impression is that the "whole point" is different
>for each of us. That's the LUG.
>
>Lucien
> 


Chandos Michael Brown
Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies
College of William and Mary 


http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~cmbrow/