Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Generations - was, Hello, I am back...
From: "Tom Kumagai" <tom_mlist@ftp.kumasite.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 01:36:37 +0900 (JST)
References: <p05111003bbf9b2587b78@[192.168.123.137]><48870.211.4.243.220.1070855700.squirrel@cilantro><p05111003bbf9b2587b78@[192.168.123.137]> <5.2.1.1.2.20031208040142.04305e80@192.168.100.11>

Hello Richard.

Kojiki, Nihon-syoki (Nihongo means "Japanese"), oh wow you know
so much about our literatures. Anyway, it is not that easy to
assume how many generations my family has been in Japan because...

Japanese race is said to be one mixture of different people ended
up here in different historical and pre-historical periods.

Let me make it easier to relate, how many of Americans we see at this list
are the descendents of Mayflower passengers? (ya, I've read Michael Moore
few weeks ago) :)

I cannot say how long my family has been around because I have no
idea whether I am a descendant of Indonesian explorers who boldly went
where no one had ever gone before, and built the first villeges in this
country, or a naturalized Chinese merchant who came few hundred years ago
and fell in love with a local woman and practically abondoned everything
for his new life with her in Japan. I've just made that up, but... - wow -
that must be cool...

Less information can mean more freedom for imagination. That I think is
the advantage of potography over movies, monochrome over color, and RF's
over SLR's (ummm, i am not sure...)

That is why I still load a roll of Tri-X into my Leica today, and we are
now back to the subject. ;)

Happy shooting!

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