Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeees, guys...Speaking as a P.R. "professional," I'd simply say that all these company magazines are marketing pieces. Can you say, M-A-R-K-E-T-I-N-G? Marketing pieces do not include anything that is in any way controversial, critical of the products, or otherwise interesting or valuable. As you said, Dan, these are basically "glorified ads for the cameras and lenses." B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Dan Cardish Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 10:55 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica]Latest Issue of Leica Fotografie Int. I guess it's "different strokes for different folks", as they say around here. I've been getting the magazine since about 1990 (beginning a few years before thay went to the larger format). I think what you say about the magazine is true for the issue I received at the beginning of my subscription. The photos were lightweight fluff, and the technical articles were basically glorified ads for the cameras and lenses (they mainly still are, but thats OK). In recent years I think a concerted effort has been made to ad depth to the published portfolios, to the point where the magazine is certainly no worse than, say, the US Photo Techniques, from a portfolio perspective. Just MHO, of course! Dan C. ps...If you are familiar with the Hasselblad Forum magazine, how would you compare the two? At 07:45 PM 28-03-00 +0200, Pascal wrote: >On 28-03-2000 15:28 Dan Cardish wrote: > >>I read the magazine mainly for the photographs. > >Dan, then you're even worse off as I never found their image selection or >portfolios to be excellent (a few happy exceptions notwithstanding!). > >Pascal >NO ARCHIVE > >-------------------------------------------------------- >See my photo pages at http://members.xoom.com/cyberplace/ >-------------------------------------------------------- >p r o u d l y s e n t o n a M a c P o w e r B o o k G 3 >-------------------------------------------------------- ><<< PGP public key available on request >>> > > >