Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That thread on the HUG never reached the state of ugliness that many threads appear to on the LUG. I certainly never came close to having to intervene (I'm the administrator). But perhaps I didn't pay close enough attention to what some of you were saying. If I had seen someone being referred to as a "shlock artist", the thread would have ended sooner. Dan C. At 12:42 PM 07-03-00 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >Well Austin!! I do recall a few months back a bunch of photographers of the >wedding ilk metaphorically sitting around talking about how many weeks to months >after a wedding they hold on to their negatives before they dispose of them and >how they most efficiently go about doing that. >Comparative shredders! > >I found the topic distatefull to put it mildly and brought up issues of "your >body of work" and did Victor design this exquisite camera system so a bunch of >shlock artists can shoot pictures with it and then complain about the space the >negatives were taking up in their studio. I believe I might have expressed it >with a degree of subtlety though.