RE: [Leica] TWO AMAZING PHOTOS -Last comment from B.D., in response to Walt's interesting post...:-)

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

All true - and some of it very sad...particularly the idea that anyone who
considers him/herself a photographer of any sort wouldn't want to
see/admire/laugh at/learn from other folks' work.....But, what the hey....as
to repair people, collectors, etc., you're absolutely right - one does not
necessarilly translate into the other....But I must say I find it hard to
understand why someone who isn't smitten with photography would choose
cameras to collect, just as I can't fathom why someone who doesn't at least
try to play the guitar, would collect them...presumably if one collects
things like cameras, cars, guitars, guns, etc., one does so because one is
involved with their use somehow...But, to each thems own......

And forget that I ever posted the post in the first place.....:-)

B. D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Walter S
> Delesandri
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 12:25 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Cc: LUG
> Subject: Re: [Leica] TWO AMAZING PHOTOS
>
>
>  My point here isn't to be "hurt" that my post was ignored, but to find it
> > > absolutely astounding that a post attempting to elicit a discussion of
> > > current - as in TODAY's photography - gets essentially no
> response, when
> > > every other subject does....makes me wonder what people use all their
> > > expensive Leica equipment for.....;-)
> > >
> > > B. D.
>
> Hello, B.D.-etc.....
>
> I'd like to reply to your message, because this question or a
> variation comes up
> in other fields, as well as the LUG.....
>
> It's possible to be a camera collector/investor and neither an enthusiast
> nor photographer.
>
> First, it is possible to be a camera enthusiast and NOT a
> photographer or vice versa.
> .
> It's possible to be a repairman and neither an enthusiast nor a
> photographer.
>
> It's possible to be a guitar collector and never play a guitar.
>
> It's possible to collect telegraph keys and NOT operate with
> morse code (for those
> into that)
>
> these things are possible, but unlikely.....it is however, very
> likely that a
> camera collector/enthusiast will be a POOR photographer, and that
> a GREAT photographer
> may be HELL on gear...or have little knowledge of current
> gear.....and a guitar collector is
> LIKELY a piss-poor player....
>
> So we have:
> Investor
> Collector
> Photographer
> Artist
> "user" (medical documentation, for example)
> Enthusiast non-owner (folks who read the LUG and don't have or
> intend to buy Leicas---
>    I'd bet there are some....)
> Other descriptions??????
> My "repair mentor" generally hated photography and
> photographers....they were
> his income, but also a pain in the ass (Leica owners?!?!?!?)-He
> DIDN'T take pictures!!
> and he ridiculed me for owning cameras
> (Leicas/Nikon/Rolleis)--said they just
> "wasted my time"......
>
> Now MOST of us are two or more of these things, but it doesn't HAVE to be
> that way......also, there are those enthusiasts/photographers who
> don't WANT
> to look at anyone else's work....don't go to shows, buy
> magazines, or whatever....
> I don't reccomend it, but they're out there.....
> Just some random thoughts based on MY experiences......
>
> Walt
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