Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/22

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Minolta made R9
From: "Jean-Claude Berger" <jcberger@jcberger.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 15:18:59 +0200

Hi Ted,

I hope you are right but a painter does not need heavy industry
goods to work. If, in the future, there are as few photographers
than there are painters now, I doubt we will be able to find
films or cameras at a decent price of not at all.

> And yes you sound exactly like the people of 150 years ago who
> said......."My God painting by the great artists is
> dead!!"  This
> photography thing will eliminate painting completely!"
>
> What happened?   The painters weren't stupid, they
> took photography to
> their hearts and use it today to photograph what turns
> them on in the
> summer, shoot that with a camera and paint the scene
> in the winter
> doldrums!


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Jean-Claude Berger (jcberger@jcberger.com)
Systems and RDBMS consultant (MCSE)
Lyon, France
http://www.jcberger.com