Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/08/30

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Subject: [Leica] Unsubscribing
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 21:16:03 +0100
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Peter

Very well put.

Peter

On 30/08/2018 07:59, Peter Klein via LUG wrote:
>... I think that the LUG
> straddles both worlds.? We all have absorbed a certain way of seeing and 
> method
> of shooting from having loved and used Leicas. That stays with us no 
> matter what
> we shoot with today.
> 
...
> 
> ... A fleeting moment of human interaction or
> expression, well-composed, captured with a small, light, fast, responsive 
> camera
> and superb optics is still one of my highest goals. To me, that's the 
> Leica ethos.
> 
...

> I think
> that most LUGgers have retained something of the Leica ethos even if they 
> have
> moved on to other brands for technological, medical or financial(!) 
> reasons.?
> Leica-ethos photographs can be taken with other brands. ... I suspect that 
> if HCB or
> Eisie or Gene Smith had access to a Fuji XT-2 or an Olympus EM-1 Mark II, 
> they
> would have been happy to give it a try. They might have even adopted them 
> for
> some things. Our own BD Colen takes his "Alone, Together" and "Day in the 
> Life"
> photos with a distinctly Leica accent, but uses Fujis.? Just to cite one 
> example.
> 
> --Peter
> 
-- 

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Dr Peter Dzwig                          



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