Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/23
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Hey Rick,
Do you know why we are lusting after every new thing that comes along?
The reason is very simple : we can buy equipment but we CANNOT buy talent...
So if we don't have one for dreaming, let us buy the other...
It is sure that a great natural born photographer will take beautiful
pictures even with an screwed up Cannon FTb or whatever...Cartier Bresson
made great portraits with a straight 50 mm...
Maybe it's a matter of genetics...
Thib.
At 22:56 22/04/1998 EDT, you wrote:
>Dear LUGers,
> Tom Abrahamsson was in Chicago yesterday and I had the pleasure of meeting
>him face to face and spending the day with him. Is there anything he doesn't
>know about Leicas? I don't think so. Truly a nice man.
> Part of our day was spent at the Art Institute viewing a Brassai exhibit.
>Wow! It was a sobering experience. Many of us on the LUG (myself included) are
>drooling over the latest lenses and film, looking for maximum resolution and
>sharpness to the Nth degree. Here was a man using uncoated lenses and
>relatively crude film making images we would be hard pressed to make today-if
>we even could. There were photos taken at night that included people (they
>couldn't have been very long exposures), bare light bulbs with visible
>filaments and the shadows had detail. Talk about knowing your tools! I don't
>know how he did it. By today's standards, these photos were soft and had poor
>resolution. But they were incredible nonetheless. Maybe we should concentrate
>more on developing our vision as photographers and really learn how to use
>what we have, rather than lusting after every new thing that comes along. Is
>this sacreligious? I realize many of my fellow LUGnuts are very interested in
>equipment, optics, etc. As for myself, I have to do some serious thinking. (
>Now how do I justify that 75 summilux?) :-) Boy am I conflicted!
> Richard W
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