Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As a daily LUG reader since the late 1990s, it all sounds pretty familiar to me. ;-) On 7/13/05 3:29 PM, "F?lix L?pez de Maturana" <FELIXMATURANA@telefonica.net> wrote: >> 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 > > > Dogmatism, intolerance or a photographic taliban? > > Felix > "El que calla, otorga... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information