Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Felix, You have used an R8, and found out that you weren't yet ready to buy one. That's fine. I don't think that bothers anyone on the list. What does sometimes annoy me is this. I don't at the moment subscribe to any Nikon lists, Canon lists, or rec.photo groups, but I certainly have in the past. I invite you to do an experiment. Get on these other lists. Make some posts which extol the value of an R8 or an M6 while criticizing an F5 or EOS 1v and just see what happens to you. Then come back and raise these free speech issues again. By the standards of other lists the LUG is highly tolerant. Sometimes to a fault. Here, watch this....I'm a Leica guy. I shoot with an M6 and an R8. But, I just want to say that I think that the F3, for the price, is a hell of a deal. Barney" Barney, Sincerely I agree with you. You are right. In every list I`m a member, a lot as a multisystems man, that behaviour is very common. And it is logical as if you have made a choice of some equipment you did it as you thought this was the best one for you. But I think too that it is more important people then cameras and we need to be tolerant wit others point of view. In every list there are some guys who contribute a lot as they are experienced pros or advanced amateurs and all of us thank this work but they have to think that in the beginning nobody knows everything and be a little bit more patient. Myself when starting in this list was rather "acid" and now intend to mainly contribute beeing a bad photographer but who took his first pic 50 years ago and who owns, no merit in this, lots of equipment. And I'm learnig to build up a WEB to show everybody, specially Mark Rabiner who rightly asked me this, some of my work. I do not know if LUG is the more tolerantlist, perhaps, but, certainly, is one of the more interesting if not the more... Kind regards Félix PS. Yes Barney in the EOS list I defend my F5, in the Nikon list I defend my EOS 1V, here I defend my Contax G2, but everywhere I defend my Leica wich BTW is the most attacked stuff.