Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Charles Dunlap wrote: > > >One would hope that in general, people would know something about photography > >before moving to a Leica system. > How do you justify this attitude? > i think it's part of the human condition for people who have struggled to achieve something to look askance at others who seem not to have had a similar struggle to achieve the same thing. this isn't a justification of course, but in a certain sense the way some people are born into families with substatial resources while others are born to families with a correspondingly severe lack of resources is also unjustifiable. in general, it seems kind of churlish for anyone who owns a leica to decry anyone elses ownership....yet such is life. let's be thankful that such wonderful tools exist and celebrate them by shooting pictures, whether they be out of focus, improperly exposed, poorly composed, mistimed or "perfect shots"... mark