Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, all. When I used to do some oil painting, fellow art-lovers talked endlessly about paints, brushes, canvas, etc... Of course there was a tacit agreement that tools are not a priority in artistic expression, but they loved talking about them. So do we (?) ;-) Mikiro Strasbourg - ----- At 6:17 pm +0200 30/7/99, Dan Post wrote: >I would like to ask the writers among you, does anyone ever come up to you >and say, "Gee, I like your work... what kind of typewriter / word processor >/ computer do you use?" >I have never heard an interview with a writer where this question is asked. >Why then do so many of us seem so hung up on what we're using rather than >why and what we are using it for? >I tired to find a carpenter's forum to see if there was a discussion or >thread about the relative merits of Craftsman or Stanley hammers... no luck! >Dan :o}~ > >> Also a hammer is a tool a Leica is a camera (or a lens or). You wouldn't >> use a hammer to take pictures (unless you wanted to be inconspicuous). I >> never have asked another photographer hey, what kind of tool is that? >He's >> be thinking tool...and then you would wish you had a hammer. >> >>