Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The below is very sad but I find it to be reflect at my university [De Montfort, in England] where the Lens Media department appear to be shifting to digital at a rapid rate...something to do with the perceived 'sexiness' for students, um! However what someone learns at college rarely provides an overwhelming influence upon the rest of their lives! On the 'young photographer' line, my interest in photography, only recently re-awoken took me initially to one of those auto everything Canon EOS things [with a side helping of PhotoShop], in less than a year I bought an M6 and shifted to b/w. I can't help but wonder if others like me [mid 20's to mid 30's - ok I'm on the mid 30's side of that] whose career involves large quantities of IT/MIS/Web things, are not likely to be drawn back to the traditional values the Leica embodies. I know you can turn the machine off with Canon and Nikon, but that is like saying you can turn the TV off, or not hop from cable channel to channel, i.e., when something is there it takes a great effort not to use it and in practice this doesn't always happen. Sorry to ramble but the pessimism of some posts that say Leica is only for collectors or 'old timers' or people too caught in emulating the past seem to miss the point, a Leica is for a style of photography which emphasises the photographer and their vision and that is as unlikely to go out of fashion as painting was when faced by photography. I'll go back to lurking now... Leopold [who thinks 35 is young!] -----Original Message----- From: B. D. Colen [SMTP:bdcolen@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 3:06 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] Younger photographers and Leica rangefinders And speaking of young photographers - my daughter, a sophomore photo major at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts here in beantown, commented yesterday that her color teacher recently told the class that they comprise what is probabaly the "last generation of students" who will be learning/doing wet printing ... interesting...