Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/18

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Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: Untitled #7 (no Leica content)
From: "B. D. Colen" <BDColen@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:56:23 -0400
 
>
> Must have forgotten my place/the place.
> This is a CAMERA forum, not a PHOTO forum.
>
> Big difference.
> Here we talk about the instrument and allude to the by-product.
>

 Isn't refering to photographs and photography as a "by-product" of "the
instrument," a bit like refering to by-pass surgery as the "by-product" of
the heart-lung machine?

We have Leicas to make photographs. We don't make photographs in order to
have Leicas. Or do we?