Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ok guys, be warned. If I'm going to pick up a camera without the express intention of creating pictures, it's going to be a Leica. Some are not comfortable with the way Leicas work, ... they are about all I've used for 35 years. But his week ... I'm going to post a digital PaW. So if you don't lika them, don'ta look. Daniel On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Barney Quinn wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been thinking about this, too. This is what I think is going on. Most > of us, to one extent or the other, probably think of the LUG as our > photographic family, or at least our virtual photographic family. I think > that many of us really do think of the LUG, and use the LUG, as more than > our Leica center of gravity. I think that is fine. Often I have the radio > on in my office as I work. It happens that I didn't yesterday. The way I > found out about the blackout was via a post to the LUG. I thought that > those posts were a good and valuable thing, and I welcome them. > > You can like digital or you can hate digital. You can decide to use it > today, never use it, or you can decide to wait and see. Any one of these > alternatives is just fine. But, what is very hard to do these days is to > avoid or ignore the question or digital. I tend to agree with BD. There is > a revolution going on right before our eyes and each of us has to make some > choices about how we are going to participate in it. I think that it is an > important question which interests, concerns, and troubles people. Most of > us tend to talk to our friends and family about issues which concern us. It > doesn't surprise me at all that people want to share their concerns and > thoughts on what is in some sense a non-Leica topic with what they consider > to be their virtual photographic family. I would say that is a considerable > strength, not a weakness. > > Barney > > > > > > > > Douglas Herr wrote: > > > bdcolen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > I was thinking again last night about the comments of those > > > who suggest we should only post Leica images...And wondered > > > if that meant that, were the late Robert Capa a member of > > > this list, you would only want to see his Leica images, and > > > would have no interest in the images he shot with Contaxes > > > and Rolleis? > > > > They'd be most appropriate on a combat photography list. > > > > Doug Herr > > Birdman of Sacramento > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > -- > > 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 > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html