[Leica] LUG yearbook

Tue Sep 24 08:14:53 PDT 2019

I kinda felt that was pretty obvious for years as we are the Leica Users Group  to use the Leica we'd be using to put in the yearbook but was solidly shot down like I was saying the Earth was flat. The first issues were all about getting the thing going in terms of volume I was told so we should not be too picky and the following issue would be Leica. That didn’t happen. But lots more money for the charity.
All of the years I entered I put two pix in one was a Leica shot the other was a Nikon shot.
As I recall a just as big question for entries for  the first issues was film vs digital with many feeling at least one of your entries should be film based. Mine was. I got scans made from film I shot with one of my M6's on color neg. 
 It was nice the first issues being able to put pix to the names I'd see posting every week but few were walking the Leica walk as well as talking the Leica talk. It seemed just a bit lame. But when I first got on the LUG most the the main posters had not owned a Leica for years and had great reasons for how non practice they are as you can't take a proper photo  without auto focus and so on. Then people started all having websites and galleries to put their images on and the only ones we'd see of these people were recent digital captures. No scans from film.

Another item was how current the pix needed to be.. Mine were shot that year right out of the camera hot off the press. Though I have a backlog of a decade of having my M6's and IIIF's being my main cameras many hundreds of rolls of film and prints. 
But I do think it should be current not the best Leica shot you ever made in your whole life; or your past Leica life.
I was often told I was not a Leica person as my recent work has been Nikon I think my body of work says otherwise.  I still have all my cameras and glass. The glass will be on a mirrorless body soon enough. Maybe a cropped format though. Which to me is very non Leica but I'm going to fly with it.

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Mark William Rabiner
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On 9/24/19, 10:38 AM, "LUG on behalf of jnelon" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of jnelon at nelonassociates.com> wrote:

    It doesn't matter what gear you use until you lead with "Leica" on the cover. That then narrows the contents of the yearbook to some Leica element.
    Jim

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    From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+jnelon=nelonassociates.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Mark Rabiner
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    The slippery slope fallacy.
    If we allow Nikons we must allow Cell phones.
    Nothing in the end matters. It's all a big joke.
    It doesn’t matter what gear you use.

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    Mark William Rabiner
    Photographer

    On 9/24/19, 1:31 AM, "LUG on behalf of Sonny Carter via LUG" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

        You’re probably going to get a Rolls when you buy one, but if you buy a
        Bentley, it’s made by VW, as are Skodas, Seat, Lamborghini and Bugatti,
        among others.

        Leica has rebranded Minoltas, Fuji, Panasonic, Sigma, Schneider  and I
        understand they’re getting ready to make a Leica and brand it a Zenit!  How
        about them apples?  Of course the LUMIX wears Leica branded lenses as does
        the Huewei phone/camera.

        In truth, I don’t think we can legally put the Leica brand on our cover,
        though we may have in the past.

        Drawing lines in the sand can get awfully confusing.

        SonC

        On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:31 PM Gerry Walden via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
        wrote:

        > I want to make it clear that I agree 100% that the gear doesn’t matter,
        > but it does matter if you put the name LEICA on the front of the book. If I
        > buy a Rolls Royce and it has cheap plastic seats instead of leather it is
        > not good enough for the seller to say “but it says Rolls Royce on the
        > bonnet!”
        >
        > Sorry, but that is the way I feel.
        >
        > Gerry
        >
        > Gerry Walden
        > 023 8046 3076
        > 0797 287 7932
        >
        > > On 23 Sep 2019, at 23:16, Ken Carney via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
        > wrote:
        > >
        > > That's the way it seems to me.  I can't see how the gear matters, just
        > the photograph.  That is a good idea about a commitment to purchase the
        > book.  Maybe a purchase up front as a condition to submitting photos?
        > >
        > > Ken
        > >
        > > On 9/22/2019 2:06 PM, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
        > >> I think that the yearbook should be as open as the LUG gallery.  Most
        > of us
        > >> have Leica's and use them but not always or even mostly.  If we want the
        > >> best images then the device taking them is not so important.  What I do
        > >> want is a commitment by the Luggers who submit images that they
        > purchase a
        > >> yearbook.  Brian will determine a charitable cause that is important to
        > him
        > >> and a charitable donation through a yearbook purchase(s) is one way of
        > >> paying him back for the hard work that putting this book together
        > entails.
        > >>
        > >> Last, please don't complain if an editorial decision is made that you
        > don't
        > >> agree with.  It is Brian's saloon and he has bellied up to the yearbook
        > bar
        > >> when no one else did.  He committed, we didn't so no complaints please.
        > >> Suggestions before are probably greatly appreciated but once the
        > decisions
        > >> are made let us all be good submitters and find two or so great images
        > so
        > >> that we can see what all of us have been up to in the best artistic
        > >> fashion.  Spaniels are great, airplanes are great, trains are wonderful,
        > >> grand(great grand)children are to be envied, street, fine art,
        > landscape,
        > >> whatever just submit some great images.
        > >>
        > >> all the best
        > >>
        > >
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