Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Scott McLoughlin wrote (brilliantly): >It's really pretty sad. You know, the heck with religion. We need a >"sensory jihad." Show the faithful a few 8x10 platinum prints, give >them some real Italian pizza and gelato, feel the cool caress of a well >worn Indian Madras shirt or the heft and density of a nice Austrian >loden cloth coat, let them listen to well recorded music (Chesky or >something) on a good stereo system. Let them have a peek at sensory >heaven, as it were. That'll make folks hopping mad about what they've >been missing and ready for a good fight :-) To which I can only add: show them too what a Leica M can do with slide film (which the company should've started doing five years ago, while there was hope). Emanuel