Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am with Jayanand here. I think the quality of the photography in the FOM2 book surpasses what you get in LFI, for example. (I know LFI is notionally independent from Leica, in the same way The Daily Worker was independent of the CPUSA, but still). Leica is under new management since FOM2 began in 2000. And this kind of project may be "small" but let us not forget that Leica is a small company too. This is a golden opportunity for them and they would be fools not to take advantage of it in some way. Cheers, Nathan On 05/01/2009, at 3:06, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > Alastair, > I disagree - this is precisely the sort of project they should involve > themselves in, to prove that regular, average people still use their > products, and life is not all one special edition after another in > order to > bring in the profits. > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Alastair Firkin > <afirkin@afirkin.com> 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. >> >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog