Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 4, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote: > I'm not sure I would consider FOM2 a mistake. My only real contact > with Leica died just before the end of the project: 2 weeks before I > was due to go and visit him in Germany, so any "inside" running I > had ran out!!! > > Leica cannot get involved with small projects such as this. The > results will hopefully speak for themselves, adn if we can prove > ourselves, we may get some support and therefore a bigger audience. > Perhaps FOM2 was a stepping stone. Let's continue to plan OUR > project and see what Leica think of it. I'm not expecting anything, > but if it happens then great. sure lets go Alastair... but let's face it... a project like this really should not be like selling girl scout cookies only to the scout parents.... Steve > > > Cheers > > Alastair > > --- kididdoc@cox.net wrote: > > From: Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Century > Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 14:07:51 -0700 > > > On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Lottermoser George wrote: > >> To me >> it's not about "love Leica" >> (though I do love my kits) >> It's rather about the photographs >> made with >> the synergy between >> "this" gear >> and >> "these" photographers >> >> doesn't feel like masturbation >> feels like photography >> >> granted there is a certain >> masturbatory quality to photography >> (self gratification) >> yet, at the point that we share our views of the world >> it becomes considerably more open >> to sharing the pleasure as well as the pain. > > > that may be true George, but I was obtuse and you missed my point... > > it concerned Leica's dismissal of our FOM2... > > we seem driven to make the same mistake twice, > > Steve > > > > > > > > > > > > >> >> >> Fond regards, >> George >> >> george@imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> On Jan 4, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Steve Barbour wrote: >> >>> If we want to love Leica with a beautiful photographic homage to >>> its products, then why does it feel like masturbation? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > thanks, Steve > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information thanks, Steve