Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/17

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Subject: [Leica] new yorker magazine: the cult of leica
From: charlie at droolassicpark.com (Charlie Meyer)
Date: Mon Sep 17 18:42:31 2007
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Sorta reminds me of an old Jeff McNelly 'Shoe' comic strip about the  
'selling out' of journalism: The Perfesser musing about 'Driving the  
Rolls Royce Silver Ghost'.

I was tempted to fondle my M3 while reading it...I confess.  A nice  
"Fanfare for an (Un)common Man".  Maybe I'll find the issue to hide  
with my Leica mini-library, to keep my smugness up for the next  
nitwit that asks: 'Is that a camera?'

Charlie

Dark Helmet: "Knock next time! You didn't see anything, did you?"
Col. Sandurz: "No sir, I did not see you playing with your dolls again."
  - Mel Brooks' Spaceballs

On Sep 17, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Richard Taylor wrote:

> \On Sep 17, 2007, at 8:18 PM, G Hopkinson wrote:
>
>> Dick, you mean like in every single movie shown and scattered  
>> throughout almost any magazine?
>> I thought it was a positive article on Leica, certainly.
>
> (snip)
>
> It certainly was positive and I suspect may have been written after  
> a personal all-expenses paid trip to Solms - or maybe even in one  
> of their conference rooms.  As much as I like to see good stuff  
> written about Leica, this was a bit over the top.  A couple of full  
> pages in the New Yorker!  Yikes!  Whoever arranged this really  
> earned their salary.
>
> Dick
>
> P.S.  Let's hope it helps keep the Leica assembly lines humming.
>
>> Cheers
>> Hoppy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] new yorker magazine: the cult of leica
>>
>> Boy, talk about incredible, stupendous, unbelievably, fantastic
>> product placement...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 17, 2007, at 1:08 PM, leo wesson wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_lane
>>>
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>>> Leo Wesson
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Charlie Meyer
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