Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"HI CREW!" I suppose it should be something more like? "Hey Family" :-)
because that's what the LUG was some many years ago. Not just folks on a
computer screen, but on the phone, even better, "face TO face!" during Leica
Seminars where many LUG family members attended during past years and where
I met a number face to face as I was the LEICA CAMERA lecturer.
:-)Unfortunately it has quietly slipped away! :-( Those with the abilities
of travelling about the world enjoyed the most fantastic enjoyments of
meeting LUGGERS in various countries. A blessing in itself!
The LUG without question became a wonderful "LEICA camera club" note "camera
club!" Where new versions of LEICA cameras with all the incredible super
modern bits and pieces made the cameras become incredible to use. More so
than other cameras? Beyond the pocket books of many devout users. :-( ERGO?
With-in the LUG the LEICA USERS became less and less. Many newbies were
users of other manufacture. This unfortunately opened the door for more &
more users of every cotton pickin' make possible.
"I LOVED THE LUG!" Still do! Guys & Gals were brothers and sisters in
quality of Leica images captured. Unfortunately?? That high level of
consistent LEICA image quality had moments of slippage as greater numbers
joined the family????????? But in fairness, everyone has to learn. But years
ago competent "Leica USERS" were in greater number. Ergo? "The photo quality
level was higher!" Well many were competent shooters because their shooting
level experience was longer in practise.
Oh I'll get arguments over that, but please hold your breath as it's true!
Certainly, if you are an "old timer LUG-RAT" like I??
Today it seems everybody and his sisters can post images"the BEST
IMAGINABLE. And unfortunately?" The general level in the olden days was
higher than we see today, why?
Well I'm not going to try to touch that. However? Is it because there are
greater numbers on the LUG of unskilled shooters? I'll leave that to the
family???????
cheers,
Dr.ted Grant O.C.
Suite 101,
PARKWOOD PLACE .
3051 SHELBOURNE St., Victoria, B.C. CANADA
V8R 6T2
250-477-2156
-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Tina Manley via LUG
Sent: August-29-18 6:11 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Cc: Tina Manley
Subject: Re: [Leica] Unsubscribing
I continue to use only Leica equipment to capture the world in a
documentary way, I hope. To me, this group is my family and I don't care
what equipment you use!!
I am one of the few women here so I guess I should feel like an outsider,
but I don't.
I don't always comment on the photos but I always look at them and
appreciate the sharing. The LUG is more about people than equipment and I
haven't found a photography group with better people ;-)
Leically,
Tina
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 8:58 AM, Gerry Walden via LUG <lug at
leica-users.org>
wrote:
> Douglas
>
> Of course we all know that virtually anything can be photographed using
> the excellent Leica equipment that is around. However I personally think
> that this group should be for the users of Leica equipment. Know I fully
> accept that when I offered to leave the group in 2012 because I had
> switched to Fuji equipment I was invited to stay because my work was such
> that could be done on a Leica, and I was grateful of the opportunity to do
> so. However if I were coming new to the group as a Leica user and saw that
> a large majority of the discussion and work was on equipment that was not
> Leica, even to the extent that Hasselblad digital has been discussed here,
> I would question whether it was a ?Leica Users Group? or just a run of the
> mill photographic group.
>
> To answer your question, the ethos of Leica photography is using Leica
> equipment to capture the world, mainly in a documentary way.
>
> I value the friendships of people here such as Lluis and Ted amongst
> others, but I am now finding that most of the posts here have little or no
> interest to me, and there are so many other places that show work in what I
> consider the true ethos of Leica, that I have reluctantly decided to move
> on.
>
> Gerry
>
> Gerry Walden LRPS
> www.gwpics.com
> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 29 Aug 2018, at 11:19, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry to hear that, Gerry. However, I do have a question: what do you
> think the ethos of Leica photography is?
> >
> > Douglas
> >
> >
> > On 29/08/2018 09:34, Gerry Walden via LUG wrote:
> >> I am sorry to say that I am unsubscribing from this board as I feel it
> has less and less relevance to the ethos of Leica photography. Those who
> think it is worthwhile can still see my work at the website below, and
> through various places such as Facebook, Twitter etc.
> >>
> >> It has been a fun ride!
> >>
> >> Gerry
> >>
> >> Gerry Walden LRPS
> >> www.gwpics.com
> >> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
> >> +44 (0)797 287 7932
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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