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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Film megabytes and some curious contradictions
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:05:52 -0500

Johnny Deadman jotted down the following:

>> Consider yourself lucky to be in the company of folks that give a SHIT about
>> ANYTHING... at least they'll argue with you....I work in a school of
>> photography...they don't even recognize a Leica....nor do they acknowledge
>> f-stops and shutter speeds most of the time...They're "into" neither
>> reportage
>> nor the finest in photographic quality....they are into "-isms" and politics
>> and "gender issues" yadayadayada ad naseum.......but they shoot with an EOS
>> rebel on "P", and blame the "lab guy" if their film doesn't "come out">
>> 
>> THAT'S the "threat" to photography, film AND digital......
> 
> Very true. And very, very, very depressing.

Nonsense: very, very good. Let them sit around in dark Art Deco cafes in
their designer labels, with their Grande Lattes and speak in five-syllable
words.  More film for us, more Leicas for us, less competition for us.
Unless, of course, you also happen to like Grande Lattes...

M.

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