RE: Re(2): [Leica] Untitled Magazine ?7

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

And to give ground a bit myself, I had only looked at the NY stuff, not
Atlanta. My overall comment's the same, but I do agree with you about the
child in the statue's eye.

Yes, the M cameras do make you work...and, as you say, when everything
clicks, it's fabulous!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mary & Stan
> Kephart
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 7:12 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: Re(2): [Leica] Untitled Magazine ?7
>
>
>
> BD wrote.
>
> >Come on, Mary - This is where we drift off into the Leica mythology. The
> >camera is not going to give them either vision or sophistication. It is a
> >tool, albeit a superb tool. It also happens to be a tool that
> demands more,
> >rather than less, sophistication and vision from the
> photographer than the
> >auto-everything which most photographers seem to use. We can
> certainly agree
> >to disagree about the quality of the photos, but the other? I don't know.
> >
> >But let's consider the photos, because I'm beginning to feel
> like a bit of a
> >curmudgeon here.
>
> Hi BD,
>
> I just reviewed the site (looked at it very hastily before) and found the
> work "uneven" at best.  I think it's just the youthful exhuberance that
> touched me.  Great photography it is not.  Threw in the stuff about the
> Leica only to try to stay on topic.  The demands made on me as a
> photographer by using the M6 is a real education.  I've wasted lots of
> film.  But the ones that are right on are stunning.  I don't like
> automatics, even when I was using an SLR.
>
> MK
>