Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Passport
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:16:17 -0800

Walter S Delesandri wrote:
> 
> Don't know where in the hell you got that information....among
> non-photographers, Leica is unknown (exc. oldsters)...among
> photographers it is known as an EXTREMELY elitist product...
> (the BEST or a useless status symbol depending on the person's
> viewpoint)...but never "just another product"......you either
> get praise or contempt for owning/using Leica from other
> photographers, depending on the status of the bug up their ass
> that day.....
> 
> Walt
snip
> 
An image comes to my mind of a working war photographer with several M's
around his torso. I think I saw in in a American Photographer or maybe
is was the French about five years back. It resolved any elitist guilt I
might have had about getting into Leica.
Mark Rabiner