Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>This is insane. If you don't like the way the project is set up, then: > >1. Do not participate. > >2. Create your own project! Invent its name and author its rules. > >Stop complaining; create a solution instead. > >regards, >Colin But Colin, You're missing the point: it is a veritable, venerable LUG tradition to whine on uselessly about any detail of anything a few of us would like to see different than what it is for the simple reason that they personally would like it better another way, and this in spite of the fact that most folks can live with things the way they are, and that they are in no way obligated to participate in the FOM2 project, buy an M7, blow smoke rings through their nose, etc., etc., and so forth and so on. Or so it has always seemed to me. Guy >On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 14:24, Pablo Kolodny wrote: >> Allan Wafkowski wrote: >> >> > I too have an uneasiness about the FOM2 only accepting Leica taken >> > photos. There is no way to enforce the demand. Any photo taken with any >> > camera and lens can be submitted. Are the entries going to be >> > authenticated by bokeh? Truth is, any slob with a point-and-shoot can >> > enter FOM2. The demand leads already weak human nature down the path of >> > dishonesty. >> > ><snip by colin> > >> > >> > Allan >> >> >> Allan, >> >> Finally I'm pleased to agree with you at all. 100%. >> Good point. >> >> Hope FoM2 founder/s can review all that to free us all and get pictures with >> whatever the camera is. At last a project concerning such ambitious thing >> like THE Family of Man would have include human beings not camera brands. >> Now, if our beloved Solms guy would like to gladly and freely "sponsor" the >> project we could promise them to add the red dot somewhere. >> > ><snip by colin> >> >> IMHO. >> >> Pablo >> > > >-- >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