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Subject: [Leica] 100 years of Leica
From: sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)
Date: Fri Jan 2 04:46:14 2009
References: <7ablht$2c63vl@pd5mo1no-svcs.prod.shaw.ca>

And Alastair, to whatever extent I can be useful, you can count on me for 
help as well.

Seth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 1:10 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] 100 years of Leica


> Hi Alastair,
>
> I figure if you've got the guts to try another one and Helen hasn't broken
> your arms yet count me as a helper bee!
>
>
>
>>>> I was thinking of doing it along the lines of FOM2 with some variations
> (mainly to keep the total numbers of images to "controllable" numbers).<<<
>
>
>
> I'm sure you've a copy of "75 years of Leica Photography" you might like 
> to
> have a look at it before you have a go at a new version 100. In the 75 
> years
> it was one picture per photographer and endless subjects.
>
> For the 100 year version you might want to keep the subjects open simply
> relying completely on the images. Because a Leica, SLR or M, are used for
> all kinds of subjects, but still limit it to one photo from each
> photographer.
>
> In this fashion you may well get far more photographers representing and
> using the LEICA CAMERA! And I'd absolutely make it mandatory the images 
> are
> acquired through a Leica lens.
>
> Body? Maybe whatever? Or it should be mandatory body also.
>
>
>
> If you want to impress LEICA, if that's possible? Being only Leica shot
> photographs makes that choice absolute, body and lens!
>
>
>
> Obviously more discussions later by any number of people.
>
> You sure you want to get into this again? Like you aren't doing any
> hallucinating stuff are you? :-) Cheers,
>
> ted
>
>
>
>
>
>
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