Re: [Leica] Capa and the Wide Angle Lens

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

Not wanting to get into a urinary exchange, I have to respond to this by
noting that I never realized that the photographer's subject was the one
who decided what lens should be used and how a particular photograph should
be taken. Those choices are usually up to the photographer. If you are
being photographically harrassed on private property, I fully understand
your objection - even if you are a photographer yourself. But if these
shots are being taken on public property, and are being taken of you as a
participant in a public event, I just don't get it. I think the bottom line
here is that he/she who lives/profits by/in the limelight, loses his/her
right to complain about invasion of privacy in the limelight.


>Well, these snap-shooters have simply been ill-educated in their craft.  It
>is a sad reality that many press photographers really aren't photographers
>at all, just photographic technicians who know how to do only a few things
>competently.  To these guys, the ONLY way to take a mug shot is to get
>closer, closer, closer.  It would never occur to them to use a moderate
>telephoto and to stand at a distance, because no one has ever suggested it
>to them.
>
>The existence of folks like that is why the enquiring minds and grand
>expertise of the press photographers on the LUG, especially Eric Welch, are
>so greatly to be respected and appreciated.
>
>Marc
>