Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chuck wrote: <<<What do some of the pros on the LUG think of the proposal to protect celebrities from these vermin (who doubtless shoot with Leica - to keep us on topic)?>>>> Chuck, what has to happen first is to shut down the rag trash magazines and TV tab programmes. If they did not offer great sums of money for these guys to operate, then they wouldn't be chasing the way they do. There hasn't been a Hollywood celeb who has had to endure the attention that the late Princess Diana had to put up with. The jackals worked her over mercessly simply because there was so much money to be made from pictures of her. Another unfortunate thing is, we "real photographers" are being pulled down along with this pack of hyenas! These guys are being called "photographers" and that is a great shame for our reputation! Hell they aren't photographers, they are manipulators of a picture taking all auto everything box that captures an image on light sensitive material. They use flash all the time and just keep blasting away like hyenas feeding on a carcass. Now it appears 7 guys have been arrested and the police have confiscated the film and will have it processed to see just what they were shooting and how close they were working alongside the car. Not only that, but the bastards started to shoot them in the car after the crash without even trying to help, even though they were beyond help. So now at the moment, 3 human beings dead, another probably on life support, and one of these guys has affered the pictures for 1 million dollars. That is of course if he gets them back from the French police. And the French police can be the most mean assed mothers you can deal with if they get their dander up. And the fact that two very high profile folks were killed on French soil in the capital city of Paris, the cops and officials are going to come down with a big heavy sledge hammer I'm sure. It certainly will be an interesting situation to follow! And I can assure you not one of these jackals would be using a Leica! They're not smart enough to get past the P&S types of cameras! ted