[Leica] photography today is GARBAGE

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

George:

I think you need to spend some time with Dr. Phil.

Jim

george karvman 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
>