Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Peter. Most images posted don't get a lot of response. I think that people are very concerned about hurting feelings and probably most, like Brian aren't sure what to say. I do appreciate what you had to say in this post and agree. On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 2:16 AM Peter Klein via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > I've been on the LUG since 1999 or 2000. I post quite a few photos > here. I don't get a lot of responses, perhaps because my photos suck, > perhaps because I use another non-Leica camera some of the time, or > perhaps because I don't comment much. Still, I use a Leica for a > significant portion of my photography. I have for my entire adult life. > And I always post my better images here. > > Given current realities, many of us have "moved on" to other camera > systems. Or we supplement our Leica photography with them. Some folks on > the list have gotten bent out of shape over that. We've lost some good > members because of it. The casual passer-by may not realize that they > are allowed to post pictures that were taken with non-Leica cameras. > Most of the "old guard" just post pictures, some Leica, some not. If > we've been here long enough, most of the list is OK with that. But that > also means that we don't get many new people. > > I agree that Leica pricing is an important reason for list attrition. > Another is visual saturation: Between all the lists and social media > sites we supposedly have to follow to keep up and get our work seen, we > are bombarded huge numbers of images. That can't help but reduce the > attention we pay to any individual image. And finally, the Leica way is > a practiced and cultivated manual skill. Such skills are less important > now in the popular consciousness. We live in an era where what's cool is > what new features you can pack into a chip this week. A lot of people > don't remember what it was like when you had to focus a camera, just as > they don't remember what it was like when you didn't have the sum of > human knowledge on your pocketable phone. What we can do is taken for > granted. > > An email list is like a club. A social media group is more like a > special interest broadcast. Bigger audience, but fewer and more > superficial relationships. > > In a way, we're all throwbacks. So what? I still like what I shoot. I > like what many of you shoot. And I like many of you. So I'm here. > > Ric Carter wrote: > > probably?slinging down a list with a finger and poking at a like is > easier > > than doing an email > > > > I use the list because I like the company here > > I'm with Ric. > > --Peter > > > Brian Reid asked: > > Someone asked me why, even though there are 700 subscribers to the LUG > > and Leica sells 100,000 cameras per year, that only a dozen or so people > > ever post pictures. I didn't know what to say. > > > > Is the era of email winding to an end? 20 years ago there were 2000 > > subscribers and 10 years ago there were 1300. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com