Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark - You post the same inflammatory message, or some variant nearly every week. We are making pictures. We are discussing gear too. My Noctilux was a gift from a dear family friend and I was just discussing getting used to it and my findings. cheer up. its spring. switch to decaf. Eric On 4/25/07, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > > > On 4/25/07 1:07 AM, "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> typed: > > > Larry, I'm sorry but you have now uttered blasphemy here and must be > > excommunicated from any connection with M's. ;-) You shall be > > shunned by true believers. > > > > > > Hoppy, Inquisitor. > > > > > > Its not the LUGs mindset Hoppy its the Leica company. > They are just not going to go there and anyone whose studied the Leica > company with any sensitivity this would be obvious too. > They're not going to AF an M. > > As to the term "True Believer" used by certain individuals to describe the > LUG one assumes with light hearted jesting but I don't know.... > One of my favorite books is > The True Believer: > Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements (1951) by Eric Hoffer > > And I really see very little of that here. Cult like behavior. > Mindlessness > of cult like sort. > What mainly goes on is quite the opposite. Dilettantism buying and selling > gear like they're trading cars. We want to sell of something we're bored > with wanting the money to buy more stuff on eBay and then we complain > about > its insufficiencies. The people who defend the gear are the supposed "True > Believers. Its Baloney. > When people come on with incredible images using the gear say the Noctilux > it means nothing to the others who come on with meaningless numbers to say > thing things just plain unviable. > LOOK AT THE PICTURES. > MAKE SOME YOURSELF. > Then call the stuff unviable. > But there's no time for pictures we're too busy on EBay. > > Mark Rabiner > 8A/109s > New York, NY > > markrabiner.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >