Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/16

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Leica's USA price list
From: "Richard W. Hemingway" <n5xrd@telepath.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 15:56:52 -0500

At 02:40 PM 7/16/96 -0400, you wrote:
>At 08:42 PM 7/15/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>At 10:35 PM 7/14/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>

>
>Second, I smell a whiff of racism in this sort of statement.   Eric pointed
>out earlier that it's objectionable to use the term "Jap."  But entirely too
>many Leica and Hasselblad fans carry with them the assumption that anything
>European must be better than anything Japanese (witness the debate about the
>origins of Leica zooms).  Nonsense!  Even if you don't like Canon and
>Nikon's auto-everything pro SLR's, any Leica rangefinder lover who cannot
>appreciate a Mamiya 6/7 ought to look at his/her attitudes!

I think that your conclusion is quite a streach, at least I hope so. ( I
also find the language objectionable)  What do you mean by "appreciate?" Not
particuarly "appreciating,"  "liking,"  or "desiring" (take your pick) some
object, here a camera, in my book has absolutely nothing to do with my
regard for the people who made it! 

Dick Hemingway
Norman, OK