Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/27

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Subject: [Leica] New Noct images - A walk in the woods
From: gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)
Date: Sun Jun 27 16:42:08 2004

And I assume you use same brilliant process (i.e. looking at it once)in 
critiquing the R9, R8, R7, R6.2, R6, R5, R4, R3, Sl2, SL and Leicaflex. If 
not, perhaps you could enlighten us further?

----- Original Message -----
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sunday, June 27, 2004 3:06 pm
Subject: RE: [Leica] New Noct images - A walk in the woods

> Wadding in late to the Noctilux discussion for a bit of his favorite
> sport, B. D. bashing, Greg Lorenzo pulls the hair out of his @#% long
> enough to write...
> "Concur. Try it first then critique it."
> 
> Which is not surprising, as only someone with very little real
> photographic experience would be so foolish as to suggest that one
> cannot criticize the performance of a lens without using it; all 
> one has
> to do is examine images produced by the lens to be able to say 
> what one
> thinks of its performance.
> 
> 
> B. D.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> GREG LORENZO
> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 2:52 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] New Noct images - A walk in the woods
> 
> 
> Mark Rabiner writes in part:
> 
> > Whenever the word "Noctilux" comes up BD pounces on it with his 
> really
> > getting to be boring agenda. No one forcing you to get one BD. 
> As no 
> > one is forcing you to use any other Leica lens; or body. However 
> on 
> > this list you are going to find many people who do. Perhaps you 
> should
> > give it a rest.
> 
> Its not just a mention of the Noctilux and certain other Leica 
> lenses or
> bodies. The list of uninformed rants includes any and all Leica SLR's,
> Leica's Digilux and Digilux 11. Any and all reviews by Erwin Puts and
> seemingly any positive review of any thing Leica. The attack on Frank
> Von Riper comes to mind.
> 
> > I'm much more open to criticism about my Leica gear from people
> > who actually use them. And whose optical prescription is not in  
> > serious question.
> 
> Concur. Try it first then critique it.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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