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Subject: [Leica] MM - first impressions
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:26:44 -0700
References: <CC650F2A.129E9%manolito@videotron.ca>

SO EMANUEL WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS???

My photograph of Prime Minister Pierre Elliot  Trudeau of Canada sliding 
down a stair case bannister hands held on high doesn't count, because it's 
shot in B&W. And not Velvia??????

When it's recognized as the most iconic politcal photograph in the history 
of Canada! Not by me, but the National Archives of Canada and many other 
organizations of similar position.

Is that correct good Sir?

Just a passing thought.

cheers,
Dr. ted :-)




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EPL" <manolito at videotron.ca>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] MM - first impressions


> Correct me if I am mistaken, but this M Monochrome thing will capture 
> images
> in, er, black and white? Like, basically, fifty shades of grey? Grey? The
> colour of age and Death?
>
> This isn't like the second coming of Velvia. Now that was something. That
> was, like, a kandy-colored tangerine-flake streamline babe. Nice bright
> colours. Dreams of summer. Kodachrome on juice.
>
> I always thought that Ansel Adams was a wanker for depicting landscapes in
> b&w. Like he was imposing humanity's morbid gloom on God's great glory.
>
> The painters at Lascaux used every colour they could see and could
> reproduce. No monochrome. Because they didn't go to school or imagine they
> knew better.
>
> Emanuel
>
>
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