Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:56 PM 7/16/96 -0500, you wrote: >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 > I agree completely with the sentiment in the last paragraph! Charles E. Love, Jr. 517 Warren Place Ithaca, New York 14850 607-272-7338 CEL14@CORNELL.EDU