[Leica] Re: Snots?

["TSL" <eno22@enter.net>]

<<I can understand how this off topic thing
could be upsetting to some
But it seems that most of it goes back to Leitz
related issues anyway. Besides, it helps us learn
more about each other. For example, before
joining I was told that this was a forum for snots.
Instead I've found that most posters here are
part photo enthusiast, part antiquarian and
maybe just a tiny bit eccentric but in a delightful
sort of way. I appreciate talking to folks who take
interest and find value in the sort of things most people
take for granted. It's almost like an alternate realty
that you can become part of for a few hours a night, a few
nights a week, a refuge from the other place a watch
is something you consult every now and again when
you are late, a car is something that takes you to work
and shopping, a camera is a thing that you take on
vacations to record your presence there and a pen is
something you write with. Perhaps some of this is
outside the scope of this list. Then again, maybe it
overflows the boundaries of the forum format.
Perhaps this peculiarity should become a movement.
That's right an anti appliance movement, through which
every worthy item is afforded a history, a personality and is the
object of discussion and debate in a far more interesting world.

Are we the Proto Anti-Utilitarians ???>>

See Ya
Javier

No.  We are snots.  We are in disguise.  Why this snotty reputation? Snot
has never been an issue or topic of any sort.  I, for one, would not post
anything about snot.  Snotty?  The question cannot be answered.  Lost of
meaningless justifications.  This is good for this and this is good for that
and this format and that format and the defense of thin air.  Other cameras,
formats, they are just great.  Leica? Hah!  Money issues...no.  Pros always
use their Nikons (a snotty remark) and others retreat into the senselessness
of pinholes while the digitals are having fun and the Canons this and the
'blads and the hassies and then the snots.  This is good stuff, and people
have this variety.  But it is the snottiness of the allegiance to,
specifically the Leica r/f and it's ins and outs.  Here I'm not analyzing
the LUG(s)nots   The "delight" you mention is the disguise's produce.  Its
something of an optical sort.   I picked up a Nikkor once and it almost flew
to the ceiling, it was hollow, stale. High end? Yeah Nikon has this and that
you don't know what your talking about I'd like to see you at this time
you'd want a Nikkor this and this and that.    Leica dips into low end but
its a tough one here and leica has a hard deal now.  .  Still, It is an
optical obsession of perfection (except that 40% new are sent back to Leica)
and the USE of the M.  Sure, a biggie blad will be better due to the law of
this and that - but that emphasizes back-aches and/or tripods for a result.
The M emphasizes the perfect camera - no not "in its class" apples and
oranges are not so dissimilar.  Larger formats, the non-snots, think we are
jealous of their chromes and this and that. But you can't live with such
appliances.  Why does the LUG move in mud?  Because of snot.  Disclaimer:
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