Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Capa and the Wide Angle Lens
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 10:29:30 -0400

At 09:36 AM 4/5/99 -0400, B D Colen wrote:
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>There is always something more than a little amusing about a
>photographer/photo buff/collector who expresses outrage at photographers
>trying to do their jobs as they believe they should be done.

Well, these snap-shooters have simply been ill-educated in their craft.  It
is a sad reality that many press photographers really aren't photographers
at all, just photographic technicians who know how to do only a few things
competently.  To these guys, the ONLY way to take a mug shot is to get
closer, closer, closer.  It would never occur to them to use a moderate
telephoto and to stand at a distance, because no one has ever suggested it
to them.

The existence of folks like that is why the enquiring minds and grand
expertise of the press photographers on the LUG, especially Eric Welch, are
so greatly to be respected and appreciated.

Marc

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