Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm fully with you on this, George. Henning On 2012-05-11, at 1:18 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > > On May 11, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > >> In my view off topic discussions in the LUG general threads, especially >> emotive ones, are divisive and distracting from talking about photography >> in general and Leica in particular. This is a broad and international >> church. >> Brian provides a separate forum for those discussions and anyone is >> welcome >> to join. >> I'll leave it at that but you're welcome to email me off list if you wish. > > I see some fine, overlapping issues being discussed. > Leica built its reputation on fine documentary photography. > Leicas dropped out of favor with professional, documentarians for a time. > Documentary photography, almost by definition, involves emotive subjects. > Our young, aspiring, photo-documentarians are expressing (documenting) > their real-life experiences; > including the lack of jobs in journalism and media; > the usefulness of higher education in the arts; > and how these issues relate to new technology and gear releases. > > While the subject heading may be stretched > (I don't think it's snapped yet) > I find the expanded "subject" far more compelling > than the MTF charts (which are impressive - too). > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Henning Wulff henningw at archiphoto.com