Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So, Buzz, are you ever going to tell us what you REALLY think about "Shutterbug?" :-) B. D. At 03:32 PM 4/8/99 -0400, you wrote: >I used to subscribe to "Shutterbug" when it was under different editorial >supervision and had many articles more interesting to me, including >intelligent writing on the history of Leica-- and other-- cameras, reports >on Leica equipment, and much more analysis of photographic issues. Today, >"Shutterbug" seems to have become a trade journal for a certain type of >wedding photography defined by Monte Zucker (did I get that name right?) (no >insult intended to any wedding photographers, but you're only one segment of >the industry) and digital reproduction. Also, the illustrations, which I >once found challenging and often provocative, have become pretty banal >(unless you LIKE cheesecake). > >I could go on, but you're right, I am veering way off topic. > > Buzz Hausner > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bill [SMTP:ohlen@lightspeed.net] >> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 3:14 PM >> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Why Read "Shutterbug," Anyway? >> >> I don't quite understand why Bob Shell and Shutterbug are being discussed >> on >> the LUG. I don't believe that Mr. Shell is subscribed to the LUG. He is >> however an active participant in the LUG's sister list --- Rollei Users. >> I >> believe the discussion began when a LUGGer took a question that Mr. Shell >> asked on the latter list and rewrote it for the LUG's benefit. >> >> Subscription to the Rollei list is the same as the LUG, except you >> subscribe >> to rollei-users. On that list you will have the opportunity to directly >> interact with Mr. Shell. >> >> (Of course it doesn't seem that Ed is subscribed ;-) >> >> Bill Larsen >> >> >