Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All I look at and all I see today is these kids with their wizbangs who don't understand CRAP about emulsions or how to mix up a batch of hypo and all their photos are CRAP pictures of idiots on skateboards and young women (??????) with metal things in their faces, this isn't photography, it's GARBAGE. These people should be in JAIL. I have to ask: WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS? If my daughters had ever come home looking like that, my wife and I would have taken care of it QUICK. The great photographers, Seieglitz, Eisendstaedt, Cartier-Bresson, Lewis Hine, Smith (who was GENE to me), wouldn't tolerate this, so why are we? These people don't understand anything about capturing the MOMENT, all they care about is where they're going to get their next DRUG HIGH. EOS stands for BRAIN DEAD, and NIKON stands for CRAP. The F was a good camera and then they were FINISHED. I take my cameras out and I make PHOTOGRAPHS, the camera i use, LEICA, makes me THINK about the photographs before I take them. I compose them in my mind, and capture them on film, and then I develop this film and PRINT it in my DARKROOM. Today's kids brains have been destroyed by auto-idiot cameras and they don't understand anything. Which is why their "photographs" are so bad. The so called "digital" is not photography. PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE CREATION OF AN IMAGE ON FILM. My Leica cameras will last for another one-hundred years, and if I am not around to use them, then my grandchildren will use them and they will be just as capable as producing PHOTOGRAPHS then as they are now. I'm glad many of you have been waiting for someone to say this. George _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/