Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] Oh yeah, someone really knows how to handle new equipment announcements and reviews...
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:10:30 -0400

I studded painting with Eisner a name guy at Washington university in St.
Louis in the mid 1970's. No one knew who made the canvas they were using or
the name of their paint brush or knife. We just went to the art store and
got what they had. I don't think there was a choice on the canvas. One big
roll.
You had a choice of natural bristle or polyester bristle.
Oil or acrylic. I painted on cut in half sheets of masonite as did many in
the class. 4x4 ft square. Hard to hitchhike home with on Big Bend Boulevard.

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:59:15 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Oh yeah, someone really knows how to handle new 
> equipment
> announcements and reviews...
> 
> They didn't talk to YOU about it. Doesn't mean they didn't talk to each
> other.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Crawford
> Fine Art Photography
> Fort Wayne, Indiana
> 260-437-8990
> 
> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
> 
> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My latest work!
> 
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> 
> On 8/26/12 7:56 PM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> My artist friends never talked about comparative canvases or brushes.
>> Never. They went to the art store and bought what was being sold.
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:42:14 -0400
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Oh yeah, someone really knows how to handle new
>>> equipment
>>> announcements and reviews...
>>> 
>>> That silly meme has been done before, and it is false. Woodworkers do
>>> have
>>> forums where people are just as passionate about hammers and bandsaws as
>>> photographers are about our equipment. I'm a professional artist; I
>>> spend
>>> a lot of time with painters and printmakers and they care deeply about
>>> quality of brushes, paints, different types of canvas, arguments about
>>> copper vs zinc for etching plates, etc.
>>> 
>>> The plain fact is that artists and craftsmen of all types do care about
>>> their tools of the trade. I don't understand why that bothers so many
>>> photographers. Its dumb, and they just need to get over it.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Chris Crawford
>>> Fine Art Photography
>>> Fort Wayne, Indiana
>>> 260-437-8990
>>> 
>>> http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
>>> 
>>> http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My latest work!
>>> 
>>> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798
>>> Become a fan on Facebook
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 8/26/12 7:35 PM, "Adam Bridge" <abridge at mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/03/hammerforum-com
>>>> 
>>>> Perfect.
>>>> 
>>>> Adam
>>>> 
>>>> 
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