Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/15

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Subject: [Leica] Another R option (now M9)
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 02:09:33 -0400

I'd not call it straight forward.
When someone pays you to shoot a picture they are not your partner. They are
not your collaborator. They are you client or your boss. Your patron.
Calling it a collaborator is really really stretching it.
Best to do the opposite.
Understate.

Mark

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Mark William Rabiner




> From: Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:49:08 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Another R option (now M9)
> 
> That's pretty straightforward....
> 
> Part of the image-plan by marketing....  ( Which I am sure N and C also
> do...).....
> 
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at earthlink.net
> 
> 
> " Magnum Photos has announced a "technological and photographic
> collaboration" with Leica that will see the camera manufacturer "sponsor 
> the
> creation of a series of independently produced multimedia essays" by
> Magnum's photographers"
> 
> 
> The fine print says that when Leica gives the Magnum photographer money for
> a project it will offer to supply them free with an M9 and glass but they
> are also free to use their  own DSLR.
> 
> In the British Journal of Photography where I read it first as an email
> which I clicked on and it brought me to their website then on the magazine
> rack their hard copy edition which I saw for the first time this month.
> 
> 
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> Mark William Rabiner
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