[Leica] Re: Filter and shades

[Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>]

Thank you Marc...

Jim


>>At 06:26 PM 5/24/99 EDT, Tom Shea wrote:
>>
>>Some like the protection, not the UV filtering. 
>>
 
At 07:25 PM 5/24/99 -0400, Marc wrote:
>
>I sometimes feel like we are dealing here with folks who suffer from being
>hard-of-thinking.
>
>TAKE OFF THE FLIPPIN' FILTER WHEN SHOOTING.  It is that simple.  Is
>something obscure in the language of this?
>
>What bloody protection do you NEED in most cases?  From the AIR?  From
>SUNLIGHT?  Or, mayhaps, from MOONLIGHT?  Not all of us hike Mount Everest
>or live, as Jim Brick does, in a salt-marsh.  Most of us live in relatively
>temperate climes and use our Leica gear in routine environments.  SO, GIVEN
>THIS:  WHY USE THE BLOODY FILTER?
>
>My local camera store used to pound on and pound on and pound on about the
>value of that "protection" filter.  They recently got bought out by another
>company which never mentions the "protection" filter.  You pays your money,
>and you takes your choice.
>
>Kiddies, I'm of Celtic heritage, that idiot last-ditchism of Wales, the
>silly obstinancy of Ireland, the wild romanticism of the Scots Hielan's,
>but, for the all of that, if one of my Leica lenses, even a new-bought one,
>were to be scarred by an errant light-sabre beam from some alien
>spacecraft, so be it.  
>
>USE your tools.  Don't pamper them.  Leicas are tools.  If you do not use
>them, then you have wasted all.  USE them.  Run risks.  Be daring, don't be
>a bloody no-daring Sassanach, and peace to you, Jem!  
>
>I go camping.  I use a hatchet to chop wood.  Do I check first to see the
>axe-resistant quotient of the wood?  Hell, no.  I chop wood with it.  I
>rebuild transmissions from time to time.  I use tools.  Do I CHECK to see
>whether the 10mm socket is DESIGNED to remove this 8mm x 1mm bolt?  Shucks,
>no:  like meets like, and it is removed.
>
>Buddy boys, get with the programme:  USE THE TOOLS TO TAKE PICTURES, and,
>you lousy ward-heelers, sons of Zapata, heirs to Chingza, or whoever you
>might regard yourselves as, TAKE OFF THE BLOODY FILTERS!
>
>I have said enough.  I will keep quiet, for at least 11 minutes.  I
>promise.  But there are no filters on MY Leica lenses when I shoot, unless
>I need their filtering quality.  I disagree with Brother Brick on a
>thousand detail issues, but, for once, and with a <sigh> of relief, I can
>say that he is right!
>
>Now, about Ted Grant and his impending 70th, the bullshit he speaks!  From
>the way women chase him, and me being alone and unloved, he must be 20 if
>he is a day, but no more than that.  Still, in celebration of his contrary
>soul, I've determined to do him the honour of swilling some <most expensive
>and almost Leica-valued> Lagavulin, my favorite single-malt, and I'm
>half-way there, that meaning that the bottle is half-full but not yet
>half-empty but this is the sort of foolishness only a deranged Canadian
>adherent of the Commonwealth Games might, conceivably, comprehend!
>
>Marc
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>