Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We all use Leicas to take our photographs. The film has to be developed. The developed film has to be printed. All part of being a Leica camera user. There fore, since this is part of the Leica experience, the questions relative to the completion of this experience would be Leica subjects, IMHO!!!! Ross McLeish wrote: > Yeah, Jim.........many of us could agree.....but.....from the commonality of > our collective interest in using Leicas, we tend to let the fact we all have > lives away from our shutter-finger sneak in occassionally. It also sort of > helps lighten up the mood, but of course sometimes becomes a little tetchy, > too. Maybe we do it because we feel safe exposing our idiosyncratic tastes > in pencils, scotch, cars, cats, etc amongst friends with at least one other > interest in common (Leica). > Interestingly most of the topics you listed have all had Leica use or other > relevant photographic themes at their heart. They weren't really all 'that' > far off-topic were they? Other times I might agree, though. > Just wondering, > Ross > > > From: "Jim Licquia" <licquia@worldnet.att.net> > > Subject: [Leica] Off Topic Topics. Can we get back to Leica Related > > Discussion. > > > A look at the contents of the latest LUG Digest shows that there is not > > much > > > discussion going on recently relating to Leica topics; To wit, > > > > > > 10 Political Correctness > > > 7 Re: Darkroom User Group (DUG) > > > Focus Kindergarten > > > 7 How many of you use cold light heads? > > > RE: [Leica] How many of you use cold light heads? > > > RE: [Leica] OT:New Contax N Digital in 2001, was: New Contax > > autofocus > > > SLR > > > Kodachrome Labs was SNAFU > > > 3 OT:New Contax N Digital in 2001, was: New Contax autofocus SLR > > > uh oh, they got tina.... > > > Re: viewing prints with loupes > > > RE: [Leica] uh oh, they got tina.... > > > 6 Re: Political Correctness > > > Color neg studio film > > > digital prints again > > > Re: digital sensors > > > 2 Contax N1 > > > SNAFU > > > 2 Political correctness, foreign photography does have some valid p > > > oints > > > Daylight Projection Attachment for Leica prjectors > > > 4 Nikon LS-2000 Scanning > > > Colour Print Film > > > > > > Going through this issue, it was difficult to find ANYTHING directly > > related > > > to Leica. Unfortunately, this is all too typical of recent discourse on > > the > > > LUG. Can we kindly get back to the subject at hand and dispense with all > > of > > > this? There are other newsgroups relating to darkrooms, political > > > correctness, Contax, Nikon, digital printing, etc. > > > > > > Respectfully, > > > > > > Jim Licquia > > > > > > > >