Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On the one hand, Jerry, I'd say that the Omas visage is pretty damn hard to miss...In fact there are times in the midst of all of this that I've thought that maybe this is a really twisted Wag The Dog and they got Omas from central casting. But then I wake up, and have to say that if there were more people in the world with your attitude there's be a lot fewer people with his - attitude...:-) B. D. "Jerry S. Justianto" wrote: > > That's a joke, > I will save a human being, anyway I would not have time to know him, since > everyman in Afghanistan look alike in times of emergency, white dress and a > beard. > Remembering a Good Samaritan. > > JSJ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pascal" <cyberdog@attglobal.net> > To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:04 PM > Subject: [Leica] Which lens would you use ? (a moral dilemma) > > > A moral question > > > > I have a moral question for you. This is an imaginary situation, but I > think > > it is fun to decide what one would do. > > > > The situation: You are in the Middle East, and there is a huge flood in > > progress. Many homes have been lost, water supplies compromised and > > structures destroyed. > > > > Let's say that you're a photographer and getting still photos for a news > > service, traveling alone, looking for particularly poignant scenes. You > come > > across Osama Bin Laden who has been swept away by the floodwaters. He is > > barely hanging on to a tree limb and is about to go under. > > > > You can either put down your camera and save him, or take a Pulitzer Prize > > winning photograph of him as he loses his grip on the limb. So, here's the > > dilemma, think carefully before you answer the question below: > > > > Which lens would you use? > > > > Pascal > > NO ARCHIVE > > -- > > --------- > > Visit my Leica photo pages at http://www.leicapages.com > > --------- > > <<< PGP public key available upon request >>> > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html