Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R and M 6 Prices
From: Photo Phreak <leicam4pro@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:29:03 -0800 (PST)

You also must consider cultural biases.  Not every country,
or shooting local, in the world is affluent enough to have
"camera overload".  And there are also "stealthy" means of
using a camera that does not flash its reflection......

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- --- Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@wm.edu> wrote:
> This strikes me as silly.  This afternoon I walked down
> the Duke of 
> Gloucester Street in Colonial Williamsburg (a tourist
> mecca for reasons 
> that are lost to me, but my office is right there).  I
> saw dozens, if not 
> hundreds, of cameras.  Aside from the P&S and digitals,
> nearly all of them 
> were black or varying shades of plastic.  I don't think
> that "society" even 
> registers the color of a camera body.
> 
> C
> 
> 
> At 07:13 PM 2/21/02 -0800, you wrote:
> >   Society, as a whole, is so camera conscious these
> days,
> >that some professionals have concluded that someone
> seeing
> >a photographer with a black body is instantly on guard,
> >because, if he or she is using a black body, he MUST be
> a
> >member of the media. Therefore, the subject is
> immediately
> >on guard.
> 
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