Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jerry, Read further down, and you can answer your own question. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Lehrer" <glehrer@san.rr.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Polaroid, requiescat in pace > Jim, > > 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 >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >