Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was reading in a book the other day about the human race being a loquacious (sp.?)lot. A sociologist studying patterns of human speech monitored conversations in the common rooms of his unversity, and found that of all the conversations, only about 14% of them concerned academic matters! Another study of conversation found that about 70% was gossip, idle chattering and discussions of matters other than the business at hand! I thought to myself- 'This sounds so much like the LUG!' I for one love the off topic nattering about places to shoot (photograph), the relative merits of earthquake prone areas vice the 'safe' miswest, the discussions on batteries, and all the other little things that get discussed. I don't think I'd hold the hard and fast 14% rule to anyone here, but that seems like a fair ratio! So, I won't complain about off topic posts unless less than 14% are Leica or Photo related! So, let's hear some more about the movers and shakers in Ferndale! :) Dan'l dwpost@msn.com - -----Original Message----- From: Martin V. Howard <marho@ida.liu.se> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 6:23 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Use just a 50mm, are you nuts??????? >Eric Welch wrote: >> >> At 12:32 AM 4/16/98 +0000, you wrote: >> >> >Hey, whaddya mean "a Minolta of all things"? Some of my best pictures (and >> >> Not only that, W. Eugene Smith's Minimata photo essay, which by coincidence >> was about people being damaged by mercury dumping in Japan (mostly) and >> Canada), was shot on Minolta SRTs. Some of the most moving pictures in the >> history of documentary photojournalism, and probably his greatest triumph >> as far as photo essays go. >> >> But who cares, Leica is better. :-) > >ROTFLOL! > >This is what I *really* like about this group: The calm, sane, rational >arguments that are put forward in favour of Leica equipment. The >objective, quantifiable, and logical data presented... > >Then again, of course Leica is better ;-) > > >M. > >-- >Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | Now fully >Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Y2K compliant. >SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ >Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho