Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geoff: I'm sure you meant well, but it does come off as a little strong when Frank says something about a Leica (I don't even remember what the original comment was - viewfinder?) and you come up with "the ultimate digest Leica criticism thread" listing every one of Frank's posts and the reasons why you think it's wrong. The only reason why I asked you if you worked for Leica is that it seemed like a somewhat disproportionate reaction from someone whom I didn't understand to be a shareholder, an employee or a rep. At least it seemed that way to me, but I may just be a battered M8 person. Regards, Dante On Nov 2, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > Dante I will certainly accept enthusiastic and pro Leica as fair > descriptions of my approach. Defensive for Leica too. Overly > aggressive I > think is unfair. > The responses were meant to be factual however. For example in > response to > comments about pricing of the cancelled R10, I quoted the Leica > authority > that said how much it would have cost. That is different to an > opinion or > desire. > > 2009/11/2 Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net> > >> I didn't say it was mindless hype. I just took it as an overly >> aggressive >> (or enthusiastic) response to someone else. >> >> Dante >> >> >> On Nov 2, 2009, at 7:12 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >> Let me put a finer point on it: >>>> >>>> People who aggressively defend Leica's corporate decisions vs. >>>> people >>>> who are aggressively critical of them. >>>> >>> >>> >>> Those are finer points on generalizations. >>> Like the milky way is not just big. Its very big. >>> Still nothing as you why Hoppys post was mindless Leica hype. >>> As to what specific points in his post you had a problem with. >>> >>> >>> Mark William Rabiner >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Cheers > Geoff > The new LEICA M9 > Passion for perfect pictures. > http://www.m.leica-camera.com > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information