Re: [Leica] Re: Nazi Paraphernalia

[Erminia R Quinn <erminiaq@earthlink.net>]

(LUGLurker speaks up)

Ted, sweetie, please calm down.

Since I've started wandering around with my Baby Leica (i.e. the Z2X), I've
had to answer a lot of annoying questions (from total strangers, yet!) about
Leica and the Nazis.  Apparently all those fakes with various WWII insignia
are beginning to give Leica a bad name.  So all the info that has turned up
on this list about Leica's subversive activities while under the Nazi regime
has really come in handy.  And the stories themselves are wonderful!


By the way, all the info about how to actually *use* a Leica has really come
in handy, too!  Especially the PAWs.  Please, everybody, keep up the good
work!


Love ya,
Erminia
(who doesn't own a Tilley hat, but does wear Mephistos)




on 2/15/01 9:15 PM, Ted Grant at tedgrant@home.com wrote:

> Gentlemen of LUG,
> Ladies please note:  I did not include you ladies as I imagine you have far
> better things to do with your time taking pictures with your Leica's, rather
> than engaging in this drivel!
> 
> It's absolutely incredible how one question, something about a Leica with a
> emblem of the past,  can escalate to the level this has in a matter of days!
> To read grown "intelligent?"  sorry, it needs the question mark regarding
> the intelligence level in this case,  due to how low the level of
> conversation has become in the blink of an eye!
> 
> What's even more disturbing is,  this has gone so far off the conversations
> normally engaged in on the LUG that I can't imagine what some of you chaps
> are about!
> 
> Is this not a forum, list, conversation centre for things Leica, as in
> camera and that of taking pictures with said equipment?  Surely no one is
> really getting any photographic enjoyment out of this nonsense.
> 
> I do believe at sometime in the past there was a similar round of silliness
> regarding this very subject and for it to raise it's ugly head once again is
> completely beyond me. If you need a history fix about the past, go read the
> garbage in the archives. Then go and throw up, get it out of your system and
> come back to earth with pictures you've taken!
> 
> Damn, obviously a great number of you have absolutely nothing better to do
> with yourselves and time than ragging each other into dumb ass conversations
> that have absolutely, absolutely,  nothing whatsoever to do with picture
> taking!
> 
> Hey and don't come back and tell me if I don't like it use my delete key!
> Stick it in your ear!
> 
> If you are truly interested in photography and what can be done with the
> leica camera and can tell me one photographic benefit derived from this
> bloody word nonsense,  I'll be only too glad to delete every LUG message
> from now til hell freezes over.
> 
> I've enjoyed, lost my control, kicked ass and angered friends and made many
> during the past 5 years on this list, no I wouldn't want to unplug, as I
> realize the family gets a bad case of tight knotted undershorts once in
> awhile. And you better believe it, this is one of the most dumb ass knotted
> undershort twitches I've seen in sometime.
> 
> So let me suggest, drop it, hell don't even reply to this, just come back
> with the fun of the PAW, the whatever it is, that doesn't get folks looking
> to reach through the screen and rip heads off!
> 
> Hey guys remember we are only here a short time and this topic has already
> burned away a great deal of  "your picture taking time"  left on Mother
> Earth!
> 
> ted
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> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hugo Lopes" <hal@netc.pt>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 5:19 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Re: Nazi Paraphernalia