Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Did Leica miss the boat on the M7 viewfinder?
From: DFangon@aol.com
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:22:12 EST

In a message dated 4/6/02 10:25:13 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
leicam4pro@yahoo.com writes:

<<  The few "pros" that I still know are paid so poorly that they cannot 
afford an expensive camera.  They are smart enough to know that a percentage 
of their "earnings" has to pay for the amortization of the equipment.  And 
what
 is the point of "that Leica sharpness" when their work goes on newsprint 
through a 60 or 80 line dot screen? Or its digital equivalent.... >>

Part of the problem is that many good photogs are very good at their craft 
(art) but are very poor marketers of themselves and/or their product.  As a 
tax accountant, I have a client whose day job is driving a big rig interstate 
(the entire Cal, Okl., Nev Col Tex. route).  His weekend "hobby" is wedding 
and "events" photography.  As a big rigger, he earns thirty eight grand a 
year.  His "hobby" grossed seventy five thousand last year (in a bad 
economy).  His secret  -  not his great photography although he IS very very 
good, make no mistake.  It's his ability to sell that extra album of 8X10s or 
that lifesize portrait of bride and groom "that will look just great at the 
foot of the stairs."  His business card is a conversational piece all by 
itself and just like any good real estate or insurance salesman, he knows how 
and when "to close".  He calls it a hobby still because all earnings goes to 
purchase of more toys (blads and leicas and nikons etc.)  It never occured to 
him to consider that income "to make a living."
Dante
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