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Subject: [Leica] What's the big fuss? Color vs, B&W
From: rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:26:52 -0700
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Indeed! You can't even buy a coke bottle for that anymore. 

Bob Adler
http://www.rgaphoto.com

On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> Tell more about the 99c lens. Fascinating.
> 
> Herbg
> 
> 
>> Seems like I miss the beginning of yet another discussion.
>> 
>> No matter, Eggleston showed us color is the new B&W.
>> 
>> Mundane can be art, and once it's art, it's art.
>> 
>> Warhol is monochromatic. In B&W? Not so much art.
>> 
>> Some use Leica, some use Canon, yet others use Olympus.
>> 
>> .... Or even a Hasselblad Flexbody with digital back
>> 
>> I know someone who uses 99 cents (!) lens on his Leica M9.
>> 
>> Some say color is best, some say only B&W is true photography.
>> 
>> I say, as long as there is an image out there
>> 
>> keep clicking that shutter.
>> 
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