Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Luis, I think, by and large, they have already forgotten you. That NYT article is a very clear indicator of that. Not a single photographer mentioned, comparisons to Rolex, etc. Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>wrote: > I hope Leica don't forget real photographers, after see 3 pages of this > nice blog I was tired to only see cameras, stores, pretty girls.... Leica > is for me and I think for all the members of this list an excellent > instrument to do pictures, celebrities... "?what we call in Spain > "Beautiful people" is a wrong way I think, in our days of international > recession ... such concepts are "offensive" for me... another way to show > snobbism! > > Cheers > Lluis > > > El 15/01/2013, a las 02:19, Philip Leeson escribi?: > > > Maybe if you looked like Ali Larter, they'd send you one: > > > > < > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/fashion/leica-cameras-favored-by-celebrities.html?partner=rss&emc=rss > > > > > > ;-) > > > > Phil > > > > On Jan 13, 2013, at 7:28 PM, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote: > > > >> Lluis Ripoll OFFERED: > >> Subject: Re: [Leica] FS: DVD: Henri Cartier-Bresson The Impassioned > Eye(2003), een film van Heinz Butler > >> > >> > >> "Dear Ted, buenos dias querido amigo! > >> Has Leica any rough idea about your 380,000 images 99,99% with a Leica? > >> I hope Leica gives you an special edition Leica MM "Dr. Ted Grant" and > you come with it to Barcelona to the big meeting!<<<<<<< > >> > >> Dear Lluis, buenos dias querido amigo! > >> No Luis, Leica don't do that for unknown photographers to them. > Although they surely know who I am been there a few times while on > assignments in Europe! Nor regardless of how many photographs your > government's National Archives' and National Art Gallery have in their > photographic collections. Even the largest in the history of your country? > Or books you've had published and acclaimed by many many reviewers and > subjects as the subject of the books. > >> > >> Nor my years of lecturing to professional photographer associations, > schools and camera clubs all over the country. And at each, espousing the > greatness of the Leica camera never ended simply because that's the > equipment that allowed me to become the very fortunate lucky > photojournalist I am! > >> > >> Even when you are the Lead Speaker for 16 years in Cape Cod for the > Leica International Seminar! Where my lectures drew such demand each year > until people had to be turned away because there wasn't teaching room for > more than a 90 bodies. > >> > >> Oh they do give them to German's, American's, sport heros, Hip Hop so > called singers! And free cameras to movie stars because they're movie > stars! > >> > >> Give them to trust worthy hard working published international > photographers for over half a century because the camera is the best tool > on the market in carrying out thousands of assignments for many > publications or books? Nope! > >> > >> Got a used slide projector one time when Leica closed the LEICA CANADA > opertion in Toronto. But only because one of the senior people told the > staff person I had a projector on loan and it should be returned! It was > already a loaner that had the hell beat out of it shipped all over the > country as a sample. > >> > >> But the VIP was convinced they should let me keep it as I was such a > loyal and trustworthy Leica user. Besides it was really in junk condition > and they'd only scrap it if I returned it! So that was my one big free > reward after 60 years of "ALWAYS BUYING ALL MY LEICA GEAR!" > >> > >> A free MM???? Whatever you do, do not hold your breathe my friend it > ain't going to happen!! > >> cheers, > >> Dr. ted > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >