Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/30
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What idiot on the LUG made that question?
"Few people really ever owned a Polaroid"
It seems that almost everyone I know had and used a Polaroid in all of
its iterations.
Jerry.
Jim Nichols wrote:
> Mark,
>
> I owned a Polaroid SX-70, purchased as a gift for my wife. Photos that
> were good to start with are good today. I also took a lot that were
> forgettable, as well.
>
> The shorescape below was captured in 1978, and scanned today. With a
> slight cleanup in Elements 6.0, it is still presentable as a web image.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Gulf+Shores+AL+1978.jpg.html
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace
>
>
>> Few people really ever owned a Polaroid.
>>
>> I'd like to see the stats on how much Polaroid photography was done by
>> amateurs vs. Leica.
>>
>> Mark William Rabiner
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: Jerry Lehrer <glehrer@san.rr.com>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:50:32 -0800
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace
>>>
>>> Larry and Rei,
>>>
>>> No! They would not prepare the same sort of EULOGY, because Polaroid
>>> had far more influence on
>>> the hoi-poloi than did Leica. Most people have never heard of
>>> Leitz/Leica.
>>>
>>> They will die "not with a bang, but a whimper".
>>>
>>> Jerry
>>>
>>>
>>> Rei Shinozuka wrote:
>>>> another one of the nifty fifty bites the dust:
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Dec28 10:44, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Read the lyrical and nostalgic account of the passing of Polaroid in
>>>>> today's New York Times.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/weekinreview/28kimmelman.html?hp
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder if some editorial writer is preparing the same sort of elegy
>>>>> for Leica?
>>>>>
>>>>> Larry Z
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>