Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] WAS...too goddam long to quote in its entirety
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@netconnect.com.au>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:16:07 +1100
References: <3.0.32.20010211124320.00683d5c@box4.tin.it> <v04011700b6acabfe5822@[208.187.35.164]> <v04011701b6acfcdb6a3d@[208.187.35.183]>

>  >Guy Bennett wrote:
>>>>  Somehow or other I missed the DOF thread. Can someone fill me in?<<<<
>>
>>Guy,
>>Some how I feel a bunch of us will hunt you down for asking the question,
>>then hang you upside down by a Leica neck strap over the Grand Canyon
>>waiting your final plunge into history!
>>[snip]
>>ted
>
>
>Alright you neophyte Luggers! You see what can happen when you ask an
>innocent question? And Ted is one of the milder ones! In order to spare you
>the outrageous slings and arrows of the LUG, I've compiled a little list of
>issues and the people they offend. Ask a question on one of the following
>topics, and you can be sure to hear from one of the below, who will not
>fail to chew your ass into little bits:
>
>Bokeh: Ted
>UV Filters: Jim
>Leica "Glow": B.D.
>Inkjet prints: Martin
>Sharpness: Erwin
>Erwin: Stephen Gandy
>Techpan: Mike Johnston
>Mike Johnston: Almost everybody
>Art photography/Eggleston: ditto
>Japanese Cameras and lenses: Marc
>
>I'm sure others more perspicacious than I will add those items that I've
>overlooked, and in the end, when everyone has put in their .02, you'll have
>a complete list of anbroachable subjects and the arch-fiends of the LUG
>who'll smack you down for daring to ask about them.
>
>Caveat Lugger!
>
>Guy Bennett
>Los Angeles, CA

Guy,

surely I've offended someone :-( I feel like a man who failed a 
Wasserman reaction :-(

Cheers
- -- 
Alastair Firkin

http://www.afirkin.com

In reply to: Message from Robert Appleby <robert.appleby@tin.it> ([Leica] the horror, the horror!)
Message from Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com> (Re: Confession of a LUG addict, Leicaholic Re: [Leica] the horror, the horror!)
Message from Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com> (Re: [Leica] WAS...too goddam long to quote in its entirety)