Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If tools have no magic, then why have people been buried with them for thousands of years? Also, since we talked about bokeh, with reference to the image, how about kami with reference to inanimate objects, never mind a gesture! Slobodan Dimitrov "B. D. Colen" wrote: > > Well, Mike, we'll have to agree to disagree. I will always believe that > a camera is just a tool; no magic, no mythology. Certainly some people > do better work with certain tools than they do with others. However, I > would argue until the cows wake up and head out for the pasture - having > come home the evening before - that what makes the Leica M a 'best' tool > for me and my style of photography is the fact that it is a manual > rangefinder, not the much worshiped Leica glass. If Nikon still made its > rangefinders, and Contax its, I might well be shooting with one of those > today instead of the M. > > If you see some great difference in your slides, more power to you. But > it sure doesn't shock me that Jonathan Eastland, whose reputation is > built on books about Leicas, would write about how spectacular slides > produced by Leicas are. > > Don't get me wrong - I love the cameras. I love the lenses. I just think > that much of the mythology is pure and utter cow plop.