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Subject: [Leica] Camera Phone Wars in Los Angeles! (you don't stand a chance)
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:47:08 -0700
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Fairly soon we'll have a transparent world. 
The very entities who used the transparency tools of the 50's and 60's, i.e. 
ham radio, faxes, mimeograph machines, etc., to fight the Cold War, are 
starting to be as restrictive (well almost!) as their old opposition.
It's changing the relational dynamics at an incredible pace. Truly an 
exciting period!
S.d.


On Sep 17, 2010, at 9:36 AM, kyle cassidy on the LUG wrote:

> Soon we will have poisoned the minds of the youth and they will not be 
> able to remember a time when you couldn't find a donut shop with your 
> camera and they'll reject anything with "interchangeable lenses". 
> 
> They'll run into some guy in a tilly hat and two Domke F2's and they'll 
> say "dude, where's your PHONE? how are you going to take any PICTURES?"
> 
> which actually reminds me of a serious story back during the 2000 
> republican election I was covering a John McCain speech and in the photo 
> pit with the usual cast of characters, there was a woman from AOL News. 
> She had a small point and shoot, and a laptop with a modem. Officials from 
> the event kicked her out because her gear didn't look professional enough, 
> despite protests from all of us that her photos were going to get seen by 
> a lot more people, and a lot sooner, than ours. 
> 
> And two years ago when photographing Chelsea Clinton there was a guy next 
> to me with a point & shoot who turned out to be from the Philadelphia 
> Daily News. Before I got back to my house and started looking at my 
> images, he had his photo up on the DN's web page.
> 
> Times they are a-changin for sure.
> 
> Did any of you get photos of the tornado in New York last night?
> 
> kc
> 
> 
> On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:10 PM, slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
> 
>> Very cool! I didn't know you were giving a class locally (more or less).
>> I had mined planned for the past 6/8 months, but scheduling has been a 
>> problem (due to my work load).
>> I didn't realize there was an interest in it, until folks started asking 
>> me out it.
>> I finally thad to throw down a date.
>> S.d.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 17, 2010, at 8:30 AM, kyle cassidy on the LUG wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> LA is a hotbed when it comes to the cameraphone it seems. I just taught 
>>> a camera phone class there last weekend:
>>> 
>>> http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/617040.html
>>> 
>>> two of the students in my class have blog posts up about it:
>>> 
>>> http://rachelmccauleyphotography.blogspot.com/2010/09/iphonetography-with-kyle-cassidy.html
>>> http://syndicated.livejournal.com/helioandsilver/44403.html
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Pretty soon Slobodan and I will have taken over the photographic world 
>>> -- all you Leica are belong to us. Resistance is futile. We're starting 
>>> in LA, but we'll get to you all soon enough.
>>> 
>>> kc
> 
> 
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