Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] Oh yeah, someone really knows how to handle new equipment announcements and reviews...
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:56:19 -0400
 
My artist friends never talked about comparative canvases or brushes.
Never. They went to the art store and bought what was being sold.

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:42:14 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Oh yeah, someone really knows how to handle new 
> equipment
> announcements and reviews...
> 
> That silly meme has been done before, and it is false. Woodworkers do have
> forums where people are just as passionate about hammers and bandsaws as
> photographers are about our equipment. I'm a professional artist; I spend
> a lot of time with painters and printmakers and they care deeply about
> quality of brushes, paints, different types of canvas, arguments about
> copper vs zinc for etching plates, etc.
> 
> The plain fact is that artists and craftsmen of all types do care about
> their tools of the trade. I don't understand why that bothers so many
> photographers. Its dumb, and they just need to get over it.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chris Crawford
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> 
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> 
> On 8/26/12 7:35 PM, "Adam Bridge" <abridge at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>>> http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/03/hammerforum-com
>> 
>> Perfect.
>> 
>> Adam
>> 
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