Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would suggest that the endless speculation around the M7 and the thousands of speculative predictions and pictures (including the Leica-H, which is the oldest M7 prediction), bear more than a passing resemblance to Melanesean cargo cults of the 1950s. In other words, build a site to it and it will come. read this carefully and draw your own conclusions: http://www.themightyorgan.com/travel_cargo.html Other aspects of the cargo cult - such as the disconnect between work and reward (here, rewarding yourself with a $2,000 camera when you don't take pictures) - and the fetishism with whatever comes out of the product pipeline (here it can Leica, Konica, Cosina, etc) also seem strangely appropriate for the LUG... - ------------ Dante Stella http://www.dantestella.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html