Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Where can one view the ICP , is it on the net? simon amsterdam - ----- Original Message ----- From: <leica-user@ispwest.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 3:55 AM Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica MP and Leicavit M > - > > > > Hello Ruddy just a few passing problems and thoughts. > > !. Well > Just like a Mark from Oregon USA to unfold the negatives in my piece and to use it as the > focal point for discussion...I wonder why you did not spend the fifteen minutes to say why > there is no need to have deep political discussions, however we will allow conversations > about what a blind photographer can shoot and what he cannot hear if he is also > deaf.....(hypocricy Mark. > > Just for you... > My name is Radcliffe Leopold Roye. > I was born in Montego bay Jamaica...migrated to this wonderful country of yours where > we discuss racism on the LUG but it is not viewed as political diatribe...it is something we > discuss using slang words like lens cap and UV. I do not read the LUG to discover a new > name..I am hear to delve into this world of camera and more importantly the reason > people use them. Is it because they are better than any other equipment..is it becuase the > lens are sharper..whatever it is..the cameras do not speak..it is the users that i am > interested in and if you are going to tell me that well I spend close to $2000 for a camera, > about the same for each lens but I am not interested in anything but the machine and what > it produces then....wow. > > I believe that when i bought my first R6.2..it was because Salgado used it. I have matured > since that initial feeling..to something like what young men might feel when they watch the > early James Bond flicks....."I wish i was an espionage agent"(maybe)......In a way I do not > think we ever outgrow this feeling. It is this feeling that gives me a kind of surreal, fantastic, > confidence that is associated with the mythodology of using a leica. In other words I > escape to another world when I pick up my camera. > >I wonder if it is an American trait to always stereo-type people you do not know. I wonder > about this thing that you seem to do so well...accentuate the negative. Couldn't you have > seen me as someone who was new to this and was trying to feel my way round, > meanwhile trying to let you-all know what I was interested in talking about. > > And I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and not render any opinions about > the way you reason...but I really do not think I have to spoon feed an adult and say > specifically that "it is the camera that will be used to lay down your legacy," > I really hope that when all is said and done we do make images that transcend the > term,"pretty picture" I hope that in all the thousands of film we develop..couple picture > moved mountains or was a blessing to another human being..if that is political idealism > then..man I am in the wrong profession. > > > This is an equipment list. Leica User Group. It's about using a certain > > brand camera, Leica's. > > Its not about "topics that might change the way people live, think, eat, > > listen to the news, discuss politics, treat or(sic) fellowman, care for > > our environment." It just not. It's about lens caps and UV filters. > > We're Geeks you see... > Well can Geeks think.....? > > > > > > 3. Get a name. Cool it with the righteously high ideas and political > > agenda for the lug and I wish you a merry Lugmas. > Now that you know my name..and my "righteous high ldeas and political agenda, tell me > what is wrong with bonding with photographers whose purpose in lifting their cameras..is > to lift up another human spirit......tell me why is that considered high ideas..and by the way > I was hypothesising and was not really hoping that some Geek would shine a light on > them as specifics I just wanted to know if there were people who wanted to change the > world with their images. > > > > 4. We know your political and philosophic leanings but not a clue as to > > which camera, lens and UV filters you use and what you use them FOR! > > Putting some picture up in the web will give you a lot more leeway. > > I'm here on the LUG to talk about cameras. And photography especially > > when it involves Leica cameras. > > IF i wanted to talk politics. I'd join that list. And pepper them with > > UV filter posts yea that's the ticket. > > And finally: > I use R8s one R6.2 (sold the other)..2 M6s..an M7(will purchase an MP > I use 21APO, 28, 35, 50, 90, for M and a 19mm and a 35f1.4 > I shoot mostly for magazines, newspapers and wires..I do not use filters..well UVs > and I have a slide show coming up at the ICP on April 4 for those who are interested. > > > Ruddy > > > > > Mark (the muncher) Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon USA > > http://www.rabinergroup.com > > mark@rabinergroup.com > > Fax: 503-221-0308 > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html