Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ken Lee wrote: >I think the difference here is your repeated reference to newsgroup. I (and I think many others) don't think of this as a "newsgroup". I consider the LUG more like a family gathering where the one thing we have in common is our interest in Leica, but we are also interested in each other as people.>>>>> Hi Ken, I don't think it can be much clearer than that. It is the "people factor" and of course leica, but the folks are what the LUG is all about. THe mafia don't have the only "family!" :) I've learned many things about the cameras I never knew in 40 years of using them, I've learned technical things that have improved my "KISS" philosophy of picture taking. Erwin's reports have overwhelmed me with their throughness of testing. As I've said before, my criteria for buying Leica glass these many years has always been...."How fast are they" and not the importance of what Erwin reveals in his assesments of quality. It's different now! But the bottom line is who we are, a collection of generally like minded human beings, some have families, some alone and the LUG in some cases, I'm sure, serves as their family. I have fretted over a post I've made and had to respond to the receiver because I didn't mean to hurt their feelings, as I was talking to a family member and not a faceless name on the screen. To many of us we have or develop an emotional attachement to our LUG family that I doubt exists in few other lists, certainly not in those atrocious "news group things" where many have such vile tongues toward other posters. The LUG really survives because Leica is the anchor and we the user folks, are the crew that make it move through the waters of life! So the LUG is my connection to so many folks I know I'll never have the pleasure of shaking their hand, sharing a glass of wine or cold beer and quietly chatting leica's and photography one on one. But the bottomline is, I feel I know many of you as kin and it'll always be so. ted. Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant