Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Donal Philby wrote: <<<<I spent years making a living as a writer and studied grammar (though perhaps you wouldn't know it from my posts!), but grammar (and typewriters) weren't things we discussed among writers.>>>>> Donal, right on! It is this latest kind of conversation about how we use the cameras and our personal involvement with life during our assignments, that gives a much greater meaning to the Leica camera, rather than the widgets, contrasts, thing i me lines per whatever and all the other techie crap that means nothing in relation to "REAL PICTURE TAKING" with a Leica. It is one of the failings of this LUG group, that the meaning of photography is so often taken over with all the damn techie stuff that is quite meaningless to those who take pictures. Amateur or pro. The bits and pieces may mean something to the folks who have nothing better to do with their time than look at nice shiny bits and pieces of Leica paraphenalia, but this LUG should have a balance between both. Unfortunately it seems at a time when meaningful "photgraphy discussion" begins to take a bit of space, that it becomes a target for the bits and pieces folks to get antsy about the realities of using the equipment. It is we the users more than they, help add to the on going Leica mystique. Therefore assisting in the collection of the camera. As without us who bring the images and stories of using Leicas in the real world, the bits and pieces collectors wouldn't have any reason to collect. The Leica mystique wouldn't exist, if it weren't for the users who have gone before us! And certainly the collectors had nothing to do with it! ted Victoria, Canada http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant