Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] perfection, etc.
From: "phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 10:52:19 -0500
 
Ken Iisaka <kiisaka@pacbell.net> wrote re: Emperor's new clothes...
>
> Not that I take good photographs, what makes me puke with 100%
> reliability is Anne Geddes.  I guess some of her stuff is all right, but
> all the stuff of infants in butterfly costumes and such drive me nuts.
> I am always reminded of: "Perfection is not when nothing else can be
> added, but is when nothing [else] can be taken away."  Was it Rodin?  Why muck
> around with perfect little infants?

I think it's from The Little Prince by Antoine de St Exupery.  One of my
primary design principle (software, photographic, etc.) I aim for.  
Hence the appeal of the Leica M to me.

Cheers,

- - Phong