Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]good try Kyle... :-) Steve On Jul 13, 2005, at 9:08 AM, george karvman wrote: > All I look at and all I see today is these kids with their wizbangs > who don't understand CRAP about emulsions or how to mix up a batch > of hypo and all their photos are CRAP pictures of idiots on > skateboards and young women (??????) with metal things in their > faces, this isn't photography, it's GARBAGE. These people should be > in JAIL. I have to ask: WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS? If my daughters > had ever come home looking like that, my wife and I would have > taken care of it QUICK. The great photographers, Seieglitz, > Eisendstaedt, Cartier-Bresson, Lewis Hine, Smith (who was GENE to > me), wouldn't tolerate this, so why are we? These people don't > understand anything about capturing the MOMENT, all they care about > is where they're going to get their next DRUG HIGH. EOS stands for > BRAIN DEAD, and NIKON stands for CRAP. The F was a good camera and > then they were FINISHED. > > I take my cameras out and I make PHOTOGRAPHS, the camera i use, > LEICA, makes me THINK about the photographs before I take them. I > compose them in my mind, and capture them on film, and then I > develop this film and PRINT it in my DARKROOM. Today's kids brains > have been destroyed by auto-idiot cameras and they don't understand > anything. Which is why their "photographs" are so bad. The so > called "digital" is not photography. PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE CREATION OF > AN IMAGE ON FILM. My Leica cameras will last for another one- > hundred years, and if I am not around to use them, then my > grandchildren will use them and they will be just as capable as > producing PHOTOGRAPHS then as they are now. > > I'm glad many of you have been waiting for someone to say this. > > George > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - > it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/ > direct/01/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >