Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:19 AM 3/11/97 +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. As a good Evangelical Dispensationalist, I prefer my Minizoom - everything's done for you! Chuck