Re: [Leica] Incidentally, why are there so few women on the LUG? Seemsa sham e.

["Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>]

Aw, shucks, Tina- you're just one of th' guys!  :o)
Dan ( Picturing Tina as a blue jean wearing tomboy with pigtails, grungy
sneakers, well worn camera bag, mud on her face, getting the shots some of
us only dream of!) Post

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Incidentally, why are there so few women on the LUG?
Seemsa sham e.


> As the woman most frequently on the LUG (I'm not sure what that says about
> me!), I have to chime in here.  I care about equipment to the extent that
I
> want the equipment to perform when I need it.  It astounds me that LUGnuts
> can say, "I took this with the early edition of the Summilux at f5.6 and
> 1/60th of a second."   I have a general idea of which lens I used but
> that's it!  I buy the fastest lenses, the cheapest I can find them and use
> them wide open at the slowest speed I can hold them.  That's why I need
> Leica's.   I'm on the LUG list because I love you all and put up with all
> of the talk about equipment to get the gems that you all occasionally
> contribute about photography.
>
> Leically,
>
> Tina
>
>
>
>
>
> At 04:11 PM 6/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Also, it's been my experience that women photographers don't care much
about
> >equipment. As an aside I recently was party to a conversation between
some
> >husbands and wives in which the gals all had a great time making fun of
the
> >guy's love affair with "gadgets" and took great pride in the fact that
women
> >don't care about such things.
> >
> >Bob (the gadget king) McEowen
>
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> http://www.tinamanley.com
>