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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: No digital comments?
From: Bob Haight <rhaightjr@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:41:34 -0700 (PDT)

I think the problem simply is that many of the posters
to this forum have simply moved on from film based
cameras to digital. Whether this forum withers and
dies is unknown but film based cameras surely will.
Bob H.
- --- bdcolen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Of course, David, if people can’t tell the
> difference when they look at
> the photos - and it's been made quite clear that
> they can't - then
> what's the problem?
> 
> Most of the discussion here still focuses (sorry :-)
> ) on Leicas and
> their use. But the reality is that even the most
> fanatic Leicaholics -
> Take Tina, for example - but don't take her away
> from us! - are
> recognizing that the times they ARE a changin,' and
> for anyone for whom
> photography is anything more than a hobby, its adapt
> or die.
> 
> If this list were to be strictly limited to
> discussing Leicas - and if
> people were limited to posting Leica images - I have
> little doubt the
> list would wither and eventually die.
> 
> 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 David
> Young
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:58 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Re: No digital comments?
> 
> 
> I agree with Karen.
> 
> As set down by Brian, this is a forum to discuss
> rangefinder photography
> 
> and cameras, made by Leica and others, and also
> other Leica equipment -
> be 
> it 'R' cameras, or Leica made/branded digi cams.
> 
> And I happily accept their Leica-lensed cousins, the
> 'Panshibas'.
> 
> Since members began posting photos taken with Canon,
> Nikon, Oly and
> other 
> fine cameras, this list has degenerated into a
> general photography 
> list.  The traffic has gone up, but the signal to
> noise ratio has gone
> down.
> 
> Please, all. This is a Leica list.  While your
> photos are often
> absolutely 
> marvellous, if they weren't made with at least
> something Leica, they
> don't 
> belong here.
> 
> Thanks.
> ----------
> 
> David Young,     | égalité, liberté,
> Victoria, CANADA | fraternité et Beaujolais.
> 
> Website at: www.horizon.bc.ca/~dnr
> 
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