Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug Richardson wrote: > Reading some of the forcefully-expressed opinions of the anti-filter > brigade, I'm slightly mystified by the one-sided nature of the > discussion - the pro-filter zealots doesn't seem to suffer the same > urge to express themselves so hotly. Interesting observation! Perhaps it a psychological thing deriving from a majority-minority juxtaposition. The majority of camera owners use filters to protect their lenses, and they feel the relaxing comfort that being part of a majority gives to people (why worry if you do what everybody else does; "100 million people can't be wrong"). The non-filter lobby, on the other hand, feels hard pressed to explain why they do not do the seemingly obvious, i.e. cover their $2000 lens with a $10 piece of glass. > Similarly, whenever a long thread of interest to collectors starts to > strain the patience of the users, the latter start calling the > collectors "geeks", telling them to get a life and start taking > pictures - you rarely see attacks on users by collectors. Well, it would seem odd even for the most insane among collectors, to bash people for *using* a camera! > Why do we have these one-sided non-debates where one faction seems > determined that its opinion must prevail? Can't we all respect the > other guy's viewpoint a bit more? Ego. Ego makes the world go round. Without it, Leica engineers wouldn't try so hard. > After all, much of what is being discussed on the LUG is a matter not > of fact but of opinion Oh, really? Now that's just your opinion. Bernard