Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/04

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Subject: Re: Secret desire
From: Jack Hamilton <"jackham "@execpc.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 23:37:00 -0500

bill erfurth wrote:
> 
> >>>It begins to look like some folks just don't want to do anything
> using
> >their fingers and brains to take pictures any more.  They want the
> camera=
> >
> >to do all their thinking for them and if they want all the BS bells and
> >whistles, hell there are any number of "dumbell no thought P&S cameras"
> o=
> >n
> >the market! So why spend the money for a wonderfull camera like an M6,
> th=
> >en
> >wish a bunch of two bit P&S simpleton elements to it!<<
> >
> >Amen!!!
> >
> >Regards,
> >Don Bledsoe
> 
> Hello Don & others,
> 
> I have to confess to having this secret desire.
> 
> Now, if I do this I will be drumbed out of the professional photographer
> ranks for life...but I still have the desire.
> 
> I want to take a chimpanzee and teach him how to point and push the
> button on  an auto-focus, auto-exposure camera, with a motor drive.  All
> I would have to do is load the film.  Now if you let the chimp shoot a
> hundred rolls of film (3600 exposures) there are bound to be some good
> shots in there.
> 
> Then you do a magazine artical or two on the photos without telling
> anyone that a chimp shot them.  Then you get the chimp a stock agency.
> Then you get the chimp in a show or two.  And then and only then you
> tell everyohne that a chimp took the pictures.
> 
> And the funny part about this is that it can...and will be done sooner
> or later.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill
> 
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