Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Hi All! The Leica creates a kind of passion that no other camera does. > Sure the MF guys may have 'civil' discussions but how can you get excited > over a Speed Graphic? While admittedly, the Leica creates a certain level of discussion, so does almost every other brand. I've experienced as much of what your term 'passion' with Voightlander, Contax, Bronica and other brands I've owned. If you want PASSION, put a couple of Minox submini owners in the same room with some reference material an few Minox pieces and maybe a development tank and slitter. Now that's passion. From your remark that you are not a MF user, since the Speed Graphic is not a MF camera but LF. Graphic users tend to use them for their intended purpose - photography and therein is their passion and misdirect and distort the invention's purpose. For them the image is what it is about, not the device. Their civility is based upon mutual respect and the understanding that to commit to LF most are more advanced or discerning than most 35mm photographers. When detail counts - LF beats all. The LUG has produced the least amount of civility of the different format groups I am a member of, which is contrary to which I would have expected given the level of education, maturity and other factors. BUT, even that has its place. In reading Oddman's discourse for instance, it first offended my sensibilities, then I considered it irrelavent to photography issues, but in going to library and looking at some of the masters (not necessarily Leica), realized what the man was trying to say. I look at the medium slightly differently than I have in the past 30 odd years. Will it affect my work. Possibly. Brian Levy, J.D. Scarborough Ont.