Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:08 PM 9/3/01 -0400, George Kenney wrote: >It has long seemed to me that those most zealous about kissing the >asses of others they perceive to be socially superior are also the >most demanding that perceived social inferiors kiss theirs. This is >commonly described among clergy, for example, as "the bigger the >front, the bigger the back." In this pinhole case, your comment had >nothing to do with criticism, constructive or otherwise, but a lot to do >with how great you are in your own mind. Wow. George, Ted Grant is one of the original LUG "Gang of Five" and is the most-level tempered of the bunch (well, Tina is level-tempered, too, but she's always off in the toolies somewhere or other, and we often need and miss her calming influences!). Your response is, well, more than a bit surly. Ted stated a distaste for pinhole photography. I share this distaste, though I admire its practitioners as I admire folks who still do mercury process stuff and the like. Takes guts to be REALLY old-fashioned and to adopt an optical tool even Hans Lipperschey found too crude for his purposes. Further, think of the tool being used for the particular art-form. ANY camera can be adapted to pinhole photography -- hell, there are folks out there using coffee-cans for the all of it, and more power to them. And I have adapters on hand which would allow me to fit some really embarrassing ISCO-Göttingen M42 lens to my M6, but why degrade a fine body with a horrible lens? All in all, I appreciated Ted's comment a lot more than the rudeness of your reply -- again, I HAD thought I was the List Curmudgeon, but I see now that I am being challenged for bilious thin-skinned (and, frankly, thin-witted) snap answers. Just where IS Eric Welch, now that we need him? Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!