Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/27

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Subject: [Leica] Another camera classic bites the dust
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Fri May 27 13:22:38 2005
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I think someone may have missed the irony in the title.
The LOMO lovers were never the type of people whom I would have liked to 
have 
associated with - Arty-farty types, pretentious and weird. They seemed to 
think
that they were at the cutting edge of Zeitgeist and style.
Douglas

Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> I am with Luis on this one. I have never understood the attraction of 
> the likes of Lomo, Lensbaby, Holga etc. If someone needs to use inferior 
>  equipment for economic reasons, that's one thing (and many great images 
> have been produced by people in this category). But deliberately using 
> what amounts to a Coke bottle bottom to make pictures and then claiming 
> it to be ART or whatever, well...
> 
> Suffice it to say that the Lomo will not be missed here.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> Luis Miguel Casta?eda wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 27 de may de 2005, at 15:22, Douglas Sharp wrote:
>>
>>> In the latest issue of "Fotomagazin" (Germany) there is an article 
>>> announcing the demise of the LOMO.
>>
>>
>>
>> crap camera keeped afloat by the lomography trend made it to raise its 
>> price off limits of the reasonable price tag. Cheapness was the main 
>> reason to be. DEP.
>>
>>
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