Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Interesting piece on the Digital R
From: Georg Bauer <gb@leicaesk.de>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:41:26 +0100

In article <Pine.SOL.4.58-L.0402150926090.13467@hedvig.uio.no>,
 Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no> wrote:

> > Oh, a Pulitzer qualifies you to write equipment reviews? Weird world ...
> In my book? You better believe it.

I prefer it if people doing equipment reviews have an idea what they are 
writing about. Especially I prefer it if people have handled the actual 
equipment before criticizing it.

> Yes, your world is.

No, actually I think your worldview is a bit warped. Pulitzer isn't 
given for technical competence with photographic equipment.

I am sure that B. D. Colen did write great stuff to gain his Pulitzer - 
that's what the price is about, journalistic writing (at least that's 
what I recall of it being about - if it recently turned into a price 
given for best photographic equipment review, your are right, of course).

But I am as sure about the need to actually handle equipment before 
making a _qualified_ statement. Withouth knowledge about the real 
product it's just uninformed guessing and nothing better than other 
uninformed guessing by windbags without a Pulitzer price. In that case 
it's irrelevant wether it's B. D. Colen or Hein Bloed who made the 
guessing.

Not that I am against uninformed guessing, mind you (I'm all for gossip 
of new Leica equipment myself). It's just that I don't see any value of 
a Pulitzer in that area ...

bye, Georg
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