[Leica] Wondering

[Douglas Barry]

Ahh, Bill, the Lug yearbook - that certainly was a way to see good 
comtemplatable images in that people had to curate their own to produce 
in what their opinion was their best two in that particular year, ahh 
well.... Then again, maybe Leo Wesson's arm - clothed in white samite - 
will break the surface of some Texas lake holding up the long lost 
yearbook, or at least with an explanation of its mysterious 
disappearance at some time in the near future.

As for sending pictures as an attachment, I'm against it. Some of us 
luggers have a limit on how much bandwidth we can use each month, so the 
prospect of being swamped with attachments, is very unpalatable. As 
others have pointed out, Brian has set up an excellent method at looking 
at posters' images - the Lug Gallery. Thanks Brian! I try to look at 
every image posted there, but don't necessarily have the time to comment 
on everything.

On Leicas, I still have two, but haven't used them as I haven't got 
around to setting up my darkroom and enlarger due to being kept busy 
because of my wife's illness. I do intend to try to get back to them at 
some stage.

Douglas

On photography, I thought this was interesting 
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-49450520/unlocking-the-secrets-of-orphaned-old-camera-film-rolls 



On 25/08/2019 03:49, Bill Clough via LUG wrote:
> USA
> TEXAS
> VICTORIA
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> HI there--
>
>     I have been a LUG member and have been posting photographs since 2000.  Finally, I sold the Leicas because I was finished with shooting film.
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>     But the cost of any Leica digital camera was -- and is -- way absolve my pay grade.
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>     I have continued to post to the LUG because of my almost 20-year history and, more importantly, I believe the LUG have evolved to being a family of photographers devoted to shooting pictures in the Leica philosophy. In that case, it is not that I abandoned Leicas;, it abandoned me with its pricing aimed at doctors, dentists and stock market brokers.
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> I don;t contribute as much as I should because of my work as an editor and journalist. But, when I manage to capture a frame I think suitable, even if with an iphone, I post it.
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> I will continue this practice until requested not to.
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> I long for the day of the LUG yearbook. It has not evolved; it disappeared. And, like the diminishing membership and postings, that is sad.
> .
> –Bill
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> Sent from my iPad
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