Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/12

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Ooops
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:38:35 -0800
References: <0001A877-BCF2-4953-BAB6-507CD84D9D73@gmail.com> <C7C019F0.5F427%mark@rabinergroup.com> <19b6d42d1003121333w4a82d3c2v775d51771a0c678@mail.gmail.com>

On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Vince Passaro wrote:

> Reading this conversation has been rather like watching a group of people
> try to teach an Eskimo what a coconut is, what a palm tree is, and how to
> grow one right here on the Sitka peninsula.  Is it the Eskimo's fault he
> can't conceive of the thing? Well, if you take him to Cancun and he still
> can't see it, then maybe yes. Still, he's a member of an endangered
> indigenous tribe so we make allowances. He pays a special tax rate and all
> and they let him kill salmon at will, all seasons. Same goes with us.


reminds me of the one about the ten blind people trying to describe an 
elephant, by touch....

then somebody shows up and says,  "open your eyes"

to be quite  surprised that the results are the same,




Steve

> 
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>>> I doubt that you are alone Mark...
>>> 
>>> Maybe the people who have just bought an M8 (after years of public
>> agonizing)
>>> could use it, show their photos...
>>> 
>>> without immediately repeating the procedure for the M9....
>>> 
>>> even talking about an M10,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Steve
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I agree that the main point in a camera  regardless of any track record on
>> the internet it may have is the use of it.
>> 
>> [Rabs]
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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



In reply to: Message from steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] Ooops)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Ooops)
Message from passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro) ([Leica] Ooops)