Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good Lord, Doug! You think these kids have heard of Magnum PI?! As to your HCB guess...I asked what ISO was, and one of their choices was Isaac S. Oscowski. "the renowned Polish documuntary photographer." No one fell for it, thank God! And most new it was a system for rating film and sensor sensitivity. However...a few did fall for it being Ischemic Sensory Oscillation, a phenomenon that causes areas of distortion in digital images...and these ar MIT students! ___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com ..... Original Message ....... On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:42:01 +0100 Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> wrote: "Magnum? a bloke with a Hawaii flowered shirt and a moustache, or was it "a big bottle of booze? May have been a revolver too - what have all "these got to do with photography B.D.??? ;-) "Douglas "HCB is the Hungarian Coal Board " "B. D. Colen wrote: " ">How's this for depressing? Thursday night I handed out a "pop quiz" to the ">first meeting of my MIT doc photo/pj class. It was ridiculously simple, and ">was designed to give me a way to throw out anyone I needed to throw out ">because I always have too many kids sign up. One question was: "> ">2. Who coined the phrase ?the decisive moment?? "> A. Susan Sontag "> B. Mathew Brady "> C. Henri Cartier-Bresson "> D. None of the above ">Only THREE of 19 MIT students got it right - and I think they were guessing, ">because not one of the kids later acknowledged being familiar with HCB's ">work. Further, NOT ONE knew what Magnum was. Oh, most frequent guess on ">question 2? Susan Sontag. :-( "> ">Fookin kids! :-( "> ">B. D. "> "> ">On 2/11/06 9:37 AM, "Craig Schroeder" <craig@craigschroeder.com> wrote: "> "> "> ">>>>Like I said , it's far more important to be where these events happen, ">>>>otherwise you never have the opportunities to capture the pictures. ">>>> ">>>> ">>>> ">>>I've always thought the phrase: "f8 and be there" summed this up rather ">>>nicely. ">>> ">>>Emanuel ">>> ">>> ">>> ">>> ">>At my age, it's, F-what and be where? ">> ">>_______________________________________________ ">>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 "> "> "> "> " " " "_______________________________________________ "Leica Users Group. "See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information