Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/10

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Subject: Re: let's argue about religion
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:44:41 -0500

At 12:19 AM 11-03-97 +0000, you wrote:
>Chuck Warman <cwarman@wf.net> wrote:
>> IMO, politics and religion should be the only *absolutely* taboo subjects
>> here, if for no other reason than they piss people off at one another.
>
>We've done politics often enough, but I don't think we've tried religion
>yet, so here goes...
>
>Isn't the automation vs. manual control argument that runs as a subtext of
>much discussion here just a rerun of the Protestant Reformation?  Manual
>operation is Protestant; nothing comes between the photographer and his God/
>subject.  Automation is Catholic, with those microprocessors and servo
>motors performing the same sort of role in image capture that priests and
>acolytes do in worship.  The Leica rangefinder is the ultimate Calvinist
>camera; the M5 and M6 are creeping Papist laxity, sorta like the Church of
>England.  Manual reflexes like the R6 are basically for the Jesuits.
>
>(Umberto Eco says something similar about the Mac versus Windows, I think).

Surely the freemasons have a role here somewhere!

Dan C.