Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: Emanuel Lowi <mano@proxyma.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: October 6, 1999 10:39 AM Subject: [Leica] LUG relevancy and new R LUG Emanuel: Any chance you will be in Chicago for the LHSA meeting later this month. I heard you speak in Charlotte and enjoyed your presentation. Interested to know what kind of projects you have been working on over the last few years? Scott Gregory London, Ontario >Just wanted to voice my delight with the past few days of interesting and informative >reading on aqll kinds of photographic matters. No half-baked soci-political diatribe >to speak of. >I, for one, would like to think that the folks at Solms, Leica USA, Kindermann-Leica >etc. also read the LUG and, perhaps, look to us as a fairly good sample of their >customer base. Our comments on their existing products and our wishes for future >developments may help inspire or influence the company towards doing what we may also >find useful or attractive. Lord knows there are really few forums other than the LUG >which give us a chance to air our views in their direction. We devalue our potential >contribution to this dialogue by attacking each other like madmen, ranting about >things light-years from Barnack's invention and its successors. Aside from basic >human etiquette, this is a compelling reason for continuing to exercise a little >restraint here. >On a slightly related topic, I'm a little sorry to learn of a soon-to-be separate R >LUG. Although I've never really used an R camera, and may never buy one, I'm always >interested to learn more about what's going on in that line. If you R users split off >I believe we will all become the poorer. The thought of subscribing to a second twice >daily missive is really not very appealing. > >Emanuel Lowi >Photojournalist >Montreal