Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >Sorry folks, it ain't the camera, its the photographer. > >Don't confuse the MEDIUM of photography with the MESSAGE of the IMAGE. > >If a photog has to explain why one image is better than another, they >are wasting their time. An image should stand by itself. IF one is >better than another, the image should tell you, NOT the photog. > >There would be a lot more great photographers, and a lot less camera >manufacturers, if photographers spent their money on classes/film/paper >and learned how to be photographers instead of spending their money on >new equipment. > >Stephen Gandy Steve, What you say is true. However, for many the pleasure is not the creation of the image but the consumption of the "toys'. I find myself in both aspects-- creation and consumption. I love making photographs, good or bad, and I love buying equipment. Henry