Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/31

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Subject: [Leica] But the parts about flash and tripods he got right
From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:46:48 -0600

> It's simple enough really, Erwin. On the one hand you you're up against
> those who think that having a leica makes you a kind of guerilla
> photographer who shoots tri-x at 3200 and must shun flash, tripods etc. on
> principle, and on the other those who have an unreasoned hostility to
> digital. Since both these positions are completely unexamined and
> irrational, your extreme rationality pisses both camps off.
> Most likely many of those who hate and fear digital are _also_ shooting
> tri-x @ 3200.



Please. You shoot Tri-X at 200. I don't even shoot P3200 at 3200 (it's a
1000-speed film). If you're going to get digestive problems and slap a
broad-brush damnation on half the correspondents on the list, you might as
well characterize our shortcomings accurately. <g>

- --Mike