Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The answer to all of these is wonderfully captured is Merlou Ponty's marvelous aphorism: "The sky is so blue that only red could be redder." yrs in the brotherhood of the Illuminists. Chandos At 12:44 PM 5/28/99 -0700, you wrote: >Leica questions . . . . . > >* If a camera takes a picture and there is no film in the camera is it >still a picture? > >* If a Leica camera is used with a Zeiss lens can it still be called >Leica photography? > >* If you use a Japanese lens on a Leica what language will they speak? > >* If Oskar Barnack decided to manufacture the Leica on his own without >Leitz, would he call his camera a Barca? > >* If that were the case would we then be referred to as BUGs instead >of LUGs? > >Peter K > Chandos Michael Brown Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies College of William and Mary http:www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown