[Leica] Do you remember why you joined the LUG?

[Leopold Green]

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:
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> ... 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 ...
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> 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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