Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R8 Woes. The puzzle is about finished,
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 14:00:15 -0800

SP wrote:
> 
> I wish they would also wake up re their input to Leica Photographie Magazine. I
> just received issue 1/99 in my mailbox and am aghast at the boredom I experienced
> as I looked through it. I have issues going back to the 50s and the recent ones
> have a serious lack of interesting text, in addition to other things. In the old
> days there were very interesting essays on equipment, darkroom work, and shooting
> technique; now, the mag is used only to hype new lenses and bodies with oodles of
> hyperbole. Ugh!
> 
> Terry
> 
me too!! My old high school yearbook staff could have done better. Looks
like Adventures in Desktop Publishing. But buried beneath the garbage
were one or two items that almost made it worth it.
And the ads are great.
Mark Rabiner