Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/28

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Food for thought
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 13:17:33 -0700

Yes Chandos, and as Hippocrates stated, "Life is short, art is long,
opportunity fleeting, experimenting dangerous, reasoning difficult."  
But I think he used a Nikon which may have something to do with it. (Just
making sure we stay on the topic of photography here.)

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: Chandos Michael Brown [mailto:cmbrow@mail.wm.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 12:50 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Food for thought


The answer to all of these is wonderfully captured is Merlou Ponty's 
marvelous aphorism:

"The sky is so blue that only red could be redder."

yrs in the brotherhood of the Illuminists.

Chandos





At 12:44 PM 5/28/99 -0700, you wrote:

>Leica questions . . . . .
>
>*       If a camera takes a picture and there is no film in the camera is
it
>still a picture?
>
>*       If a Leica camera is used with a Zeiss lens can it still be called
>Leica photography?
>
>*       If you use a Japanese lens on a Leica what language will they
speak?
>
>*       If Oskar Barnack decided to manufacture the Leica on his own
without
>Leitz, would he call his camera a Barca?
>
>*       If that were the case would we then be referred to as BUGs instead
>of LUGs?
>
>Peter K
>



Chandos Michael Brown
Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies
College of William and Mary

http:www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown