[Leica] LugNuts & Bolts

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0609/nuts-bolts.html

"WE SHOULD NOT LIVE IN A ONE-TOOL WORLD."

Bill Pierce's late breaking September installment of his  NUTS & BOLTS
online column on the DIGITAL JOURNALIST site is directed right at where I'm
sitting and where other LugNuts undoubtedly are also positioned.

The anticipation of Photokina September, 26 ? October 1, 2006
More than a very few of us will be going this year as I am as its part of
going to the annual Leica Histogram Society of America annual meeting held
this year amazingly in Wetzlar and Solms. (my spell checker again) And for
many of us in effect to linger on a few days in Cologne, Germany.
http://www.photokina-cologne.com/wEnglisch/photokina/img/dokumente/Photokina
_2006_englisch_facts_and_figures.pdf

Bill is psyched up on this oncoming technological accumulational onslaught
because of the anticipated Leica digital M8. The reason I will be there.
Although I'm told by Jimmy Koh I'll probably not be able to bring one home -
my original plan.

Wikipediaing Cologne, Germany just now it see it says:
Cologne is the only city in Germany with an explicit tax on prostitution
which explains the city's relative open-mindedness towards sex businesses.

I'd looked up Cologne before on other search engines and that cultural
financial aspect did not come up that I noticed.
In other parts of the world this is referred to as "amusement tax".
But I think the smile on my face as I go through customs on the way home
will have to come from the new camera paraphernalia in my bulging sachets.
A 39 to 55 adaptor.
Ho Ho Ho.
But Bill did talk about any of that stuff I'm off on a tangent a usual -too
smart to take the Wikipedia route.


" What we do know is that we are looking at a professional level digital
camera that is not modeled after a 35 mm SLR. The versatility of that SLR,
and, now, its digital counterpart, has made it the most popular camera type
for the photojournalist. But we should not live in a one-tool world. We
should have the option of the smaller rangefinder with a focusing system
that loves dim light and high-speed wide-angles. We should have sneaky
little point-and-push cameras that don't attract attention but deliver good
image quality. And, because most photojournalists don't make enough money to
both own a house and send their kids to college, there should be affordable
medium formats that let them do well-paying commercial jobs and photograph
landscapes if they ever get to take a vacation."

I'd put the thing in full context and hit this button:
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0609/nuts-bolts.html


I'm also into the ease my 99 dollar Canon Scanner scans my 8x10 negs I soup
in my bathtub of this Holiday Inn.
    That's just a wish, a visualization at this point.

Maybe HOBO will have an exhibit this year in Cologne.
I know Apple will. For the first time.

http://www.bostick-sullivan.com/Hobo/welcome.htm
http://www.bostick-sullivan.com/Hobo/tucumcari120.htm

Hand held 8x10 rocks!


Mark Rabiner

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