Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Howard, This is maybe Marketing High School policies that depassed our mentalities, Saludos cordiales lluis El 03/12/2008, a las 23:33, H&ECummer escribi?: > >> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:55:00 +0100 >> From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] The Family of Man II on a Spanish Newspaper >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> >> This is excellent, LLuis, although it would have been nice if the >> article talked a bit more about the book as such and not just one >> particular photo. But better than nothing! >> >> As for LFI and Leica, I think Alastair tried to get them interested >> in >> some way but with no luck. I guess their marketing department was >> busy >> dreaming up new Special Editions at the time. >> >> Saludos, >> Nathan > > Hi Nathan, > I approached Stephen Lee about FOM II and introduced Alastair to him. > Alastair made a presentation about it to Stephen and then nothing > happened. > I wrote to Stephen pointing out that the photographs in the foyer of > the Solms > office did not emphasize the image quality that Leica lenses were > capable of producing. > (They were in fact out of focus grainy swirls of sh*t). Stephen did > find the time to > write back to me that it was Leica policy to allow creative vision > to the photographers > they worked with. But there was never any response to Alastair's > presentation. > Very strange in my opinion. > Keep those Alicante pictures coming by the way. > Cheers > Howard > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information