[Leica] Re: Erwin's Latest

[creativevisions at verizon.net (Michael J Herring)]

My point.................EXACTLY !!! (The masters are rolling over in
their
graves).
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From: "Peterson, Arthur G CIV SEA 02" <arthur.peterson@navy.mil>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:49 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Erwin's Latest


>
> B. D. Colen wrote (in part), "As to the comments about the Canon
lenses -
> It's not that photographers won't 'notice,' it's that real photographers
> know it just doesn't matter - what matters is getting a meaningful
image,
> not the technical accomplishment."
>
> And Mark Rabiner responded (in part), "BD feels threatened by people
> talking on the Leica users group about how much they value their
Leicas."
>
> I value my Leicas, and I have no idea of what B.D. may or may not feel,
> but I would like to re-frame what I take to be his point in a way that
> seems to me indisputable.  Three quarters of a century ago,
> Cartier-Bresson was taking better photographs with his technologically
> deprived (i.e., by today's standards) Leicas than I'm taking today with
> the latest electronic bodies and aspherical lenses.  And if using
> equipment as antiquated as his would enable me to take photographs as
good
> as his, I'd trade my modern equipment for it in an instant.
>
> Art Peterson
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