[Leica] Leica Century

[afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin)]

I'm not sure I would consider FOM2 a mistake. My only real contact with 
Leica died just before the end of the project: 2 weeks before I was due to 
go and visit him in Germany, so any "inside" running I had ran out!!! 

Leica cannot get involved with small projects such as this. The results will 
hopefully speak for themselves, adn if we can prove ourselves, we may get 
some support and therefore a bigger audience. Perhaps FOM2 was a stepping 
stone. Let's continue to plan OUR project and see what Leica think of it. 
I'm not expecting anything, but if it happens then great.

Cheers

Alastair

--- kididdoc@cox.net wrote:

From: Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Century
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 14:07:51 -0700


On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Lottermoser George wrote:

> To me
> it's not about "love Leica"
> (though I do love my kits)
> It's rather about the photographs
> made with
> the synergy between
> "this" gear
> and
> "these" photographers
>
> doesn't feel like masturbation
> feels like photography
>
> granted there is a certain
> masturbatory quality to photography
> (self gratification)
> yet, at the point that we share our views of the world
> it becomes considerably more open
> to sharing the pleasure as well as the pain.


that may be true George, but I was obtuse and you missed my point...

it concerned Leica's dismissal of our FOM2...

we seem driven to make the same mistake twice,

Steve












>
>
> Fond regards,
> George
>
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>
>
> On Jan 4, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>
>> If we want to love Leica with a beautiful photographic homage to  
>> its products, then why does it feel like masturbation?
>
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thanks,  Steve









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