RE: [Leica] Is digital photography necrophilia?

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

;-)
But come on, Rolf, it is a list devoted to "Leica photography-" all
though precious few members spend their time photographing Leicas - but
photography is an important part of the purpose. Let's be honest
here...if the only thing photographic discussed was Leica equipment and
unique aspects of its use, this list would be down to two people in
about a week. First off, there is virtually nothing about Leica
equipment that hasn't been discussed here as extensively as Tilley hats
- - one doesn't need to spend time on the list to get equipment questions
answered; all one has to do is go to the archives. And as to the
"unique" aspects of photography with Leicas - such as? Come on - an EOS
(film) Rebel is just as quiet as an M; there are other rangefinder
cameras; there's nothing "unique" about photographing with Rs, so we
come back to equipment.

What this list really is is an international community of people who
seem to have at least two things in common - we all use and are perhaps
a bit irrationally attached to Leica equipment of one sort of another;
and we are all interested in photography, to one extent or another.

For those of us who are interested in photography, the onslaught of
digital is a major topic - and who better to discuss it with than those
we Leica..?

Hats? Scotch? Pens? Custom made bicycles? Take that trash talk to list
for hat-wearing, drunk, bikeriders with inkstained shirts!:-)

B. D.

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Tessem
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Is digital photography necrophilia?


B. D. Colen wrote:

> The reality, Rolfe, is that other than here and on photo-net, 
> Leica-related talk is getting to be rarer and rarer. I'd point out, if

> I may, that those of us discussing digital more and more are people 
> who have shot with Leicas, and very often still do shoot with Leicas, 
> but have also embraced a new reality, and that reality is now part of 
> our photographic lives. You say you had no problem tolerating Tilly 
> hats, single malts, etc....and motorcycles, and cars, and pens, and 
> hi-fi equipment. Then what's the problem with tolerating discussion of

> digital photography? It's at least relevant to a photography list, 
> while all those other topics, which at times have completely dominated

> the list for days at a time, are utterly and complete irrelevant.
> 
> B. D.

B.D.,

I don't think Leica-related talk is getting to be rarer and rarer -- at 
least in recent years it has always been the LUG and photo.net (and its 
precursors).

The problem with the second part of your post is that this isn't a 
general purpose photography list. It is one thing for completely 
off-topic threads such as those about Tilly hats and single malts to 
meander for a few days, and quite another for people to treat a Leica 
list as a place to debate anything and everything photographic 
regardless of the topic's relevance to things Leica. Since digital is 
the latest thing, that is what dominates at the moment, and has for 
weeks and weeks.

This will cause (and arguably already has caused) the LUG to completely 
lose its focus and become a non-resource rather than the valuable one 
that it has been over the years.

Just to be clear, I have nothing against digital per se. When the Leica 
digital back for the R8/R9 arrives, I expect it to be discussed here on 
the LUG -- probably ad nauseum. :-).

Rolfe


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