Re: [Leica] why are you posting this to the Lug???

["Simon Lamb" <s_lamb@compuserve.com>]

B. D. Colen wrote

snip:  there are an awful lot of people who produce
really mundane wasted film

Surely this should be prefixed with "IMHO", since that is your opinion and
perhaps not that of others, especially those who took the pictures and maybe
do not feel their efforts are wastin film.  After all, I suspect even those
pros here in the LUG stated by "wasting film" before their technique evolved
and matured.

Simon

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Birkey,
> > Duane
> > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 4:55 PM
> > To: Leica Users (E-mail)
> > Subject: [Leica] why are you posting this to the Lug???
> >
> >
> > No offense Kyle and Joe, but what do you hope to accomplish by
> > posting these
> > messages to the LUG.  Are you telling some people on the LUG they are
not
> > worthy of owning a Leica nor a Noctilux?  Or do you hope to
> > insult everyone
> > who is not using Leicas to earn a living on this list or those
> > who you think
> > are being outshot by 12 year olds with toy cameras.  Or do you want to
> > discourage people on the LUG from sharing photographs in the
> > future for fear
> > they will ridiculed?
> >
> > For many people on this list, Photography is a hobby and or a
> > second passion
> > and to them Leica is the best way to enjoy it as well as record
> > personal and
> > family memories. If the photography of people on the LUG doesn't meet
your
> > standards and you feel hindered by it enough to announce it publically
on
> > the LUG, perhaps you should find a group of people who share your
feelings
> > elsewhere.
> >
> > Either way, Let's be nice on the Lug.
> >
> > Duane Birkey
> > HCJB World Radio
> > Quito Ecuador
> > Duane's Photographs of Ecuador
> > http://duane_birkey.tripod.com
> >
> >
> >
> > From: "Kyle Cassidy" <cassidy@netaxs.com>
> >
> > >the www.toycamera.com group and the leica uses group, THEY KICK OUR
ASSES
> > every time. i'm absolutely serious,
> > SNIP
> > > go ahead and look at their galleries. then ask yourself why you spent
> > $1400 on that m6.
> > > we still need to come up with a credo for the LUG; this ain't it
though.
> > >kc
> > Could it be that aside of a few LUG professionals and others who make
good
> > photos for a living or for profit, the rest of us are too concerned
about
> > the latest, sharpest, bokehest, and microcontrastiest instead of
> > art, soul,
> > and content?
> >
> > As an example I will name only one instance: Of all the sample
> > photos shown
> > by LUG members which were taken with a Noctilux, I cannot name a
> > single one
> > whose pictorial merit would justify the enormous expenses of such a
lens.
> >
> > Joseph Codispoti
> >
> >
>