Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Stephen, >Wow. Finally somebody on my frequency. I'm new to the Leica game and >therefore know >nothing about the pompous Mr. Puts. Who is he? Is he a PR flak?, >Leica lobbyist? an >optical engineer? a mechanical engineer? a manufacturing engineer? >Who has endowed >him with all this "wisdom?" Why does nearly everyone on the LUG bow, >scrape and >a**k*** him? Can someone enlighten me? >Cordially, >Kurt Miska >German Business Translations >Ann Arbor, Michigan Bowing and scraping I'm not very good at. Respecting, is something else, and I for one respect Erwin Put's knowledge and consistent analyses of Leica lenses. The language may appear obtuse at first, but after reading a series of his tests and relating them to my own experiences I find I can trust his tests on new items to be generally more accurate and predictive of real world performance than most others. That earns my respect. Who has endowed him with his wisdom? A strange question. Erwin's language often sounds stilted, but remember that English is not his native language. If I were to try to write a technical article in the only other language I have even a remote chance of using, I would sound simple minded and probably foolish. I don't think I am either, and neither do I automatically infer that Erwin is pompous because he does not have a large range of English idioms at his command. His main failing in these posts is probably that he consistently praises Leica products, but then this is a Leica list and many subscribers do that, usually without nearly as much technical basis as Erwin has. What I really find galling are all these personal attacks on Erwin (which he only responds to in the mildest fashion) by people who have not shown that they or their work accords them a fraction of the respect that Erwin's does. If anyone wants to respond to this, please do it off-list. I'm not going to post anything further on this topic. - -- * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com