Re: Re: [Leica] Leica technology, creative control

[fbrunell@bonzai.net (Francois Brunelle)]

I am no pro.  One day I ended up finding a link on the internet about Leica,
the LUG.  I bought an M6 because of you people on the Lug and I am very glad
I did it.  Mind you I could afford it.  Bear in mind that I could be one of
these morons as I feel that I am still in the infancy of photography.

Let me rephrase all this...I bought a Leica first and foremost because it
gave me the opportunity to listen to and talk with people whom have a
passion and then, I bought it because of the quality of the pics!  I believe
that for me it became more of a social thing than a photo thing.

Passionate people sometimes go overboard.  We have lost some very good
people a few weeks ago because some of us when too far.  I am always
interested by what Tom, Ted, Jim and the others have to say.  The LUG is the
only mean we have to talk about Leica gear and photog experience.  As a
photography moron and especially as a Leica lover...please let stick all
together and share one another's opinion.  I do not want to end by myself
with pictures and toughts I cannot share with anybody because they all quit.
And that was my short story how I came to buy an M6 ... and maybe an M3 as a
second body in the very near future.

And BTW, I am almost 30 years younger than most of you out there so I feel
the LUG is a great opportunity to learn something about life that I cannot
get in my daily dealings with other people!! :-)

Francois Brunelle
Ashburn VA
- -----Original Message-----
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 7:18 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: [Leica] Leica technology, creative control


>
>>>This is really sad.  A bunch of third rate morons with Leicas.  What a
>waste.
>>>
>>>Tom Shea
>>>
>>
>>Tom, I have to be blunt and tell you that I think your statement above is
>
>>just that. They all have full time other jobs and have limited time to
>>spend on something that they enjoy. And they do enjoy it. Both learning
>>about it and doing it.
>
>I remember when I got my first Leica. August 21, 1981.
>
>I was a rank amateur. I traded my camera outfit in for an R3, 50 Summicron
>and 135 Elmarit. I bought some Kodachrome 64 and took it over to the
>University of Alberta, Calgary, and photographed Amy Grant putting on an
>impromptu concert on campus for the students. Acoustic, all by herself.
>
>I fell in love.
>
>With the camera too! <G> I was amazed at the image quality. It pushed me to
>seek even better quality. Of course, I purposely learned photography on
>slide film so I would know how to make good exposures. And at the time
>Kodachrome in Canada was $2.05 a roll. So I learned fast. But it was the
>magic of Leica images that drew me to higher standards.
>
>Another time it was "Yosemite and the Range of Light" that pushed me. Each
>stepping stone is a new "boost" to ever-increasing excellence. That's what
>learning is about. That's what LUG is about. Let's keep it that way.
>
>>A while back, I stopped posting to the LUG about stuff I was doing, ideas
I
>>had about certain subjects, etc. because of the attitudes of many people.
>>Your statement re-affirms my commitment to again, become only a lurker.
I'm
>>going off the air now.
>
>Don't Jim, I'm sure it was a slip. Stick with us, we can talk this out. :-)
>Real fast, please folks!
>--
>
>Eric Welch
>St. Joseph, MO
>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
>
>He, who will not reason, is a bigot;
>he, who cannot, is a fool;
>and he, who dares not, is a slave.
>
>William Drumond, Scottish writer  (1585-1649)