Re: [Leica] LUG relevancy and new R LUG

["Scott Gregory" <sgregory@skyia.com>]

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From: Emanuel Lowi <mano@proxyma.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: October 6, 1999 10:39 AM
Subject: [Leica] LUG relevancy and new R LUG


Emanuel: Any chance you will be in Chicago for the LHSA meeting later this
month. I heard you speak in Charlotte and enjoyed your presentation.
Interested to know what kind of projects you have been working on over the
last few years?

Scott Gregory
London, Ontario

>Just wanted to voice my delight with the past few days of interesting and
informative
>reading on aqll kinds of photographic matters. No half-baked soci-political
diatribe
>to speak of.
>I, for one, would like to think that the folks at Solms, Leica USA,
Kindermann-Leica
>etc. also read the LUG and, perhaps, look to us as a fairly good sample of
their
>customer base. Our comments on their existing products and our wishes for
future
>developments may help inspire or influence the company towards doing what
we may also
>find useful or attractive. Lord knows there are really few forums other
than the LUG
>which give us a chance to air our views in their direction. We devalue our
potential
>contribution to this dialogue by attacking each other like madmen, ranting
about
>things light-years from Barnack's invention and its successors. Aside from
basic
>human etiquette, this is a compelling reason for continuing to exercise a
little
>restraint here.
>On a slightly related topic, I'm a little sorry to learn of a soon-to-be
separate R
>LUG. Although I've never really used an R camera, and may never buy one,
I'm always
>interested to learn more about what's going on in that line. If you R users
split off
>I believe we will all become the poorer. The thought of subscribing to a
second twice
>daily missive is really not very appealing.
>
>Emanuel Lowi
>Photojournalist
>Montreal