Re: [Leica] Leica technology, creative control

[fbrunell@bonzai.net (Francois Brunelle)]

I would love it!!!! ... but I am not in the SanFran area at all.  Any other
generous Leica know-how in the Washington D.C. area?  If we can get enough
people we could spend a Saturday learning something.

Francois Brunelle
Asburn 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 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica technology, creative control


>At 10:21 PM 6/29/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>I taught a Leica Workshop this past week. A couple of evenings and all day
>>Saturday photographing San Francisco. Even though most people had a
>>reasonable amount of Leica hardware (and Tom Brichta, the Leica rep,
>>supplied them with more stuff) it was evident that most of them did not
>>understand how depth of field is controlled, what hyperfocal distance is,
>
>Jim,
>
>There's got to be a lot of money in teaching people these things.
>Travelling workshops not on the "high end" like many of them are. Basic
>good photography workshops. Wonder how they would go over if marketed
>correctly? The Nikon workshops come to mind. But make them hands on.
>
>I wonder how many sales the high-end camera makers lose because people who
>can afford their stuff get frustrated with their non-P&S cameras that are
>difficult to master, because of a lack of basic education? Could build up a
>whole new market if done right.
>
>Leica could do it, since their cameras require more basic competence to get
>close to using a fraction of their potential than other techno-whiz
>cameras. And with the back-to-the-basics movements going on all around,
>this seems a natural.
>
>What say you, amateurs and newbies? Would you pay someone (not me! I'm too
>busy!) to teach you how to utilize bokeh?
>--
>
>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)