Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>This is really sad. A bunch of third rate morons with Leicas. What a waste. >> >>Tom Shea >> > >Tom, I have to be blunt and tell you that I think your statement above is >just that. They all have full time other jobs and have limited time to >spend on something that they enjoy. And they do enjoy it. Both learning >about it and doing it. I remember when I got my first Leica. August 21, 1981. I was a rank amateur. I traded my camera outfit in for an R3, 50 Summicron and 135 Elmarit. I bought some Kodachrome 64 and took it over to the University of Alberta, Calgary, and photographed Amy Grant putting on an impromptu concert on campus for the students. Acoustic, all by herself. I fell in love. With the camera too! <G> I was amazed at the image quality. It pushed me to seek even better quality. Of course, I purposely learned photography on slide film so I would know how to make good exposures. And at the time Kodachrome in Canada was $2.05 a roll. So I learned fast. But it was the magic of Leica images that drew me to higher standards. Another time it was "Yosemite and the Range of Light" that pushed me. Each stepping stone is a new "boost" to ever-increasing excellence. That's what learning is about. That's what LUG is about. Let's keep it that way. >A while back, I stopped posting to the LUG about stuff I was doing, ideas I >had about certain subjects, etc. because of the attitudes of many people. >Your statement re-affirms my commitment to again, become only a lurker. I'm >going off the air now. Don't Jim, I'm sure it was a slip. Stick with us, we can talk this out. :-) Real fast, please folks! - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave. William Drumond, Scottish writer (1585-1649)