Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] A Leica moment
From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:47:06 +0000

Dear Chandos

Nice image but rather grainy over the Net.  Who is that lady looking at the
camera?

Dan K.

At 11:20 PM 28/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Just to carry on for a little bit the thread that centered on RF as a "way 
>of Seeing."  Eric and I exchanged views about the "leica" look.  I don't 
>think that we argued so much as we talked at cross purposes.
>
>I've just posted an image that for me perfectly captures what I associate 
>with an RF "look".  I can't imagine capturing such an image with any other 
>camera than an M or with any other lens than a 'lux.  This represents for 
>me, at least, *one* of the meanings I associate with the Leica "look."
>
>Chandos
>
>See: http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown/photography/people/casey.htm
>
>
>Chandos Michael Brown
>Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies
>College of William and Mary
>
>http:www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown
>
>