Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] tools
From: Mikiro Mori <arbos@silva.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 21:07:03 +0200

Hi, all.  When I used to do some oil painting, fellow art-lovers talked
endlessly about paints, brushes, canvas, etc...  Of course there was a tacit
agreement that tools are not a priority in artistic expression, but they
loved talking about them.  So do we (?) ;-)


Mikiro
Strasbourg

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At 6:17 pm +0200 30/7/99, Dan Post wrote:
>I would like to ask the writers among you, does anyone ever come up to you
>and say, "Gee, I like your work... what kind of typewriter / word processor
>/ computer do you use?"
>I have never heard an interview with a writer where this question is asked.
>Why then do so many of us seem so hung up on what we're using rather than
>why and what we are using it for?
>I tired to find a carpenter's forum to see if there was a discussion or
>thread about the relative merits of Craftsman or Stanley hammers... no luck!
>Dan :o}~
>
>> Also a hammer is a tool a Leica is a camera (or a lens  or).  You wouldn't
>> use a hammer to take pictures (unless you wanted to be inconspicuous).  I
>> never have asked another photographer hey, what kind of tool is that?
>He's
>> be thinking tool...and then you would wish you had a hammer.
>>
>>