Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/15

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Subject: [Leica] Do you remember why you joined the LUG?
From: leopoldgreen at mac.com (Leopold Green)
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:59:36 +0100
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and yours do! I remember your work going all way back to when I first joined 
this group!

as someone who is decidedly amateur I find the critique stings more than it 
maybe it should

On 15 Oct 2014, at 20:55, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Leopold Green wrote:
> 
>>>> 
> ... there are the times we are told with absolute certainty that any new 
> Leica is made only for collectors who will never take a single picture 
> with it - 100%, no discussion, absolute conviction, Leica some sort of 
> pernicious organisation and those 'collectors' idiots with no connection 
> to photography [read the comments made when they introduced the cheaper 
> film M-A]. Few takes issue with this so I assume that this is what most of 
> the LUG believe ...
> <<<
> 
> I've been a participant in far too many internet arguments to take issue 
> with the 'Leica is for collectors' pronouncements.  Nothing good comes of 
> these types of threads.  I prefer to let my pictures do the talking.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
> 
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