Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Last weekends Wedding - 100% Leica
From: Bill Satterfield <cwsat@istate.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:57:15 -0600
References: <003101c28a78$44e6a4f0$0316fea9@ccasony01>

BD, just think how good it  could have been if it had been taken with a 
Leica.

bdcolen wrote:

>Are you smoking crack, Fred, or are you really suggesting that the only
>images that qualify as "photographs" in your view are taken with Leicas,
>and that any good image is representative of "the Leica way?"
>
>And, yes, like any reasonably good photographer, I can capture images
>with my Olympus Stylus that are the equal of photographs taken by those
>who are not reasonably good photographers but own Leicas because they
>think that doing so makes them good "photographers."
>
>Here's one I shot in 1982 - when I was doing much less shooting than I
>do now - with an Olympus XA, and what you are seeing is a scan of the 60
>min photo lab 4x6 print I've had all these years.
>http://www.leica-gallery.net/bdcolen/image-35306.html
>
>BTW, it may  come as a real shock to you, but many of the world's great
>photographers (and God knows I do not in any way consider myself such
>:-) ) were not, and are not, Lecia shooters.
>
>B. D.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Fred Sears
>Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 12:29 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: RE: [Leica] Last weekends Wedding - 100% Leica
>
>
>of course...like i said earlier, Leicas certainly aren't right for
>everyone, are they???
>
>I'm sure you do great with your Olympus Stylus...
>
>ROFLOL!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of bdcolen
>Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 12:08 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: RE: [Leica] Last weekends Wedding - 100% Leica
>
>
>WHAT? So if one takes a "photograph" with a Nikon, a Canon, a Contax, a
>Rollei, or for that matter an Olympus Stylus, it is representative of
>"the Leica way?"
>
>ROFLOL!
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Fred Sears
>Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:41 AM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: RE: [Leica] Last weekends Wedding - 100% Leica
>
>
>The "Leica way" is simply the difference between a "photograph" and a
>"snapshot" - and, sadly, it seems that many folks are unable to "see"
>the difference.
>
>But, then again, they certainly aren't right for everyone...   :)
>
>
>
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